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From: [e-mail] (Thomas Roell)
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Subject: v07i042: VGA X11 Server, Part00/08
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Date: 15 May 90 05:59:05 GMT
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Submitted-by: Thomas Roell <[e-mail]>
Posting-number: Volume 7, Issue 42
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There it is -- the X11 server of your sleepless nights!


FEATURES:

    - various resolutions (640x480, 720x540, 864x606)
    - MouseSystems & MicroSoft Mouse support.
    - shared libraries
    - STREAMS connection (no TCP/IP neccessary!!)
    - you need only 80MBytes diskspace for compiling (*smile*)
    - it's free!!!


INSTALLATION:

Quite simple, but when you use shared libraries (which are very space-saving!)
the normal strategie for building X11R4 fails. But anyway it's not so hard to
do:
    It's assumed that you successfully installed all patches and are
    now in the top directory (ex. /usr/local/X11/mit ).

    1) make Makefile
    2) make Makefiles
    3) make includes
    4) cd lib
       cp Imakefile.new Imakefile
       make Makefile
       cd ..
    5) make depend
    6) make

Now all should go it's usual way.

But why all this stuff for shard libs ?

As you might know SYSV shared libraries are just static linked programs with
a special magic number. Therefor all references must bee resolved befor build
the library. This means if libb.a uses a symbol defined in liba.a, then liba.a
MUST be build before libb.a. Now in our case libXt.a depends upon libXext.a,
which normally will be build after all normal libraries in lib/. Therefore
libXext.a must be build after libX11.a and before libXt.a.

Ok. -- here are two Imakefiles (Imakefile.old & Imakefile.new). Imakefile.old
is used first three steps, while Imakefile.new is used for real building X11R4.


If some of the above descibed steps failed, you should look in config/ix386.cf
to set the correct paths and flags. You could have done this before first
typeing 'make' -- but who reads the README file first ??? (nobody!!!!)


HINTS, TIPS & TRICKS:

1) After installing all X11 stuff you should use following litte script to
   shrink you clients:

    for i in *
    do
     strip $i
     mcs -d $i
    done

2) You should execute 'chmod 755 xterm xload' in /usr/bin/X11.

3) Remove the 100dpi fonts. if you don't plan to use them. It saves some disk
   space.



NOTES:

1) To compile config/imake successfull you should edit config/Makefile.ini to
   contain the statement 'BOOTSTRAPSCFLAGS = -Dix386 -DSYSV -DUSG' , then
   go into config and type 'make -f Makefile.ini'.

2) There must be a directory called /dev/X !!!!

3) There must be a /dev/vtxx with no getty-process on it. (i.e an unallocated
   virtual terminal )

4) This is a quick & dirty port for VGA. I done it because I wanted X11 on my
   386box ( and not pay $750 for Interactives version!!). There are limits
   on the server. All my experiances with this server caused me to write a
   completely new one (not based upon ibm code). It will provide more modes
   (Monochrom, 4,8,16,256 Colors), more flexibility -- short speaking: It
   will bee much better. I gave away this version only because too many people
   have asked for it now. When the new server is stable enought it will be
   available immediately. But that won't be before autumn '90.

5) I tested the whole thing only with gcc!!! There may be problems with
   normal cc. At least the server depends on gcc, because here I used inlines
   in gcc syntax.

6) Compiling the server will require libdbm.a !!! You can obtain a public
   available version of this library for GNU. This library is not standart in
   SYS V/386.

7) There are minor bugs in server/ddx/ibm/vga. I got no time to fix them all,
   so why don't you do that.

8) gcc has problems with indirect function calls. That may cause errors in
   the libraries. But as far as I tested the clients there are no more bug's
   (but who knows...).

9) xman: Here I personally use a special format (may not be standard on SYSV).
   All manpages are located in /usr/man/cat*. As you should notice * stands for
   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,l,n -- the normal way of UNIX-life. But in that directries
   all manpages are preformatted and (thats the important thing) compressed.
   The normal extension is missing (and the '.Z', too!!!!) , so there all
   14 characters available for name of the function or command.

10) You are urged to send me all you suggestions, comments, bugfixes and
   improvements. Let's create a better server than all these comercially
   available ones!!!


TODO:

1) Currently there is only support for seriall mice. Let's add more models and
   the variouse bus mice, too.

2) The library of available graphics modes (i.e. resolutions) is quite small.

3) There sould be a library of keyboard mappings for different countries
   (german, frence, spain ....).


dan
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