Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!sun!sally!plocher From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: ^S/^Q problem in SV/AT 2.4 (a resolution!) Keywords: ctrl-s/ctrl-q Message-ID: <106863@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 26 May 89 06:30:50 GMT References: <7632@saturn.ucsc.edu> <106605@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 35 In article hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes: >Do you fix kernel problems on Suns too? No, I am in the Portable Window Systems group. Our charter is to make Sun's windowing software portable between different OS's and hardware platforms. Often this means actually porting the code to the new platforms, but we would like to focus on portability issues rather than porting issues. In practice, we are porting. Right now we are involved in porting the X11/NeWS Merged window server to AT&T Unix Vr3 on the WGS 6386. We are using both the 1600x1200 Monochrome Cornerstone Video System and the EGA/VGA. My development environment (there are 6 of us) consists of a 25Mhz 386 clone, lots of disk space, and a Sigma VGA. Other setups we have are Compaqs (W/Compaq VGA) and AT&T WGS 6386s (W/AT&T EGA & VGA). Everyone else is using ATT Unix V/386 3.2 with Micom/Interlan TCP/IP boards and software. I am using Wollongong TCP/IP + NFS (Love it). I'm not using Everex Unix because they don't have TCP avaliable yet. Ditto ISC. By the end of the Summer we should be running this stuff on a 386 under Vr4 :-) - I will keep the group posted on that adventure! The server we are developing uses a "standard" Console Driver ioctl() to get the resolution et al from the driver, so it should run under ISC and Everex's Unix also. This is an AT&T Unix specific ioctl which queries the console driver about the hardware resolution of the screen. Another ioctl which manages the virtual consoles is also utilized. Vendors are free to implement ioctls however the wish, so this isn't a standard as such, but ISC and Everex shouldn't have changed things that much from the ATT supplied descriptions... -John Plocher