Summary: XWindow question (displaying Netview/6000 on Sparc 5 CDE)

From: Danny Lee (del@nabaus.com.au)
Date: Sun Sep 15 1996 - 23:12:43 CDT


Hello all,
        Here it is....the final summary for this problem.

Once again, Steve Butterfield has come to the rescue. Thanks heaps,
Steve!!

        The answer to this problem lies with the /usr/dt/config/Xservers file.
I copied this file to /etc/dt/config/Xservers and modified the last line
of /etc/dt/config/Xservers to look like the following:

:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun -dev
/dev/fbs/tcx0 defdepth 8

        And it works......

I'm sure it has been said before.....but, I'll say it again.....this
mailing list is GREAT!!

Regards,
        Danny

Reply from Steve Butterfield
============================
From: steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield)
To: del@nabaus.com.au

Danny,
        Well since I am on a roll try this ....

 
/usr/dt/config/Xservers is a default configuration file and before
making any
changes to the file you may wish to copy it to the /etc/dt/config
directory.

Then change the last line in the /etc/dt/config/Xservers as follows:

:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -dev /dev/fb
defclass TrueColor defdepth 24

Obviously substituting your own args.

Best Regards,

Steve Butterfield.

Danny Lee wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> The great thing about this list is that there is always at least one
> person who is bound to know something!!!
>
> Thanks to steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield), who hit it in one.
> Netview/6000 is having problems with the default 24-bit frame buffer
> (S24) that came built-in with the Sparc 5s.
>
> I tried displaying Netview/6000 again in openwindows (in 8-bit mode)
> using the command:
>
> openwin -dev /dev/fbs/tcx0 defdepth 8
>
> and it works!!!
>
> However, the problem now is, how can I do the same in CDE? Does anybody
> have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Danny
>
> Original Question:
> ==================
> Danny Lee wrote:
> >
> > Hello Sun-managers,
> >
> > Just wondering if any X Window gurus out there will be able to point me
> > in the right direction......I'm running CDE on Solaris 2.5 on a Sparc 5
> > and am trying to display Netview for AIX from a RISC/6000 over the
> > network.
> >
> > When Netview/6000 is displayed on an AIX box, all the icons and windows
> > are displayed correctly. However, when I try to display it over the
> > network to a Solaris 2.5 CDE display, all my Netview icons are not
> > displayed at all, and more importantly, the maps in the main Netview
> > window doesn't get displayed at all.....and the only errors that I get
> > on the AIX box is "ovw: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)". It
> > seems to have problems drawing the contents of the windows...ie. most
> > windows are just blank even though the window border is OK.
> >
> > Has anybody come across this situation before? Can anyone point me in
> > the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Danny
> >
> Reply:
> ======
>
> From: steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield)
>
> Danny,
> It sounds a bit like a mismatch of visuals to me. Is there a
> difference in the Framebuffer depths on the two machines ?.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Steve Butterfield.
>

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