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- From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: CX Board questions
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.000956.28795@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:37:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.010225.9313@colorado.edu>, devin@gandalf.colorado.edu (Sonja Orlavski) writes...
- >In article <1992Jul17.225909.17520@MITL.COM>, lemke@MITL.COM (Kennedy Lemke) writes:
- >|> (2) How do I build a new kernel that understands the CX board?
- >|> I know how to make kernels--but do I, for example, need to
- >|> reinstall the OS with the new graphics board installed? Or
- >|> can I just add something that I haven't already tried to
- >|> the kernel config file (I've already tried "cfb" and "pm")?
- >
- >Software wise:
- >
- >What you need is not a new kernal, it's a new X server.
- >
- >The PX board uses /usr/bin/Xtm2d, and the CX uses /usr/bin/Xws.
- >
- >The installation software looks at what kind of board you have, and loads
- >the appropriate X server, so I'll bet that you don't have Xws installed.
- >Either steal it off of another non-PX DEC, or re-install that portion of
- >the software (CORE X11?).
- >Then, edit /etc/ttys to use /usr/bin/Xws instead of /usr/bin/Xtm2d.
- >
- > -Devin
- >
- >--
- >Devin Hooker (RP90) (SotM 7/91) DoD #0034 devin@boulder.colorado.edu ------
- >"It's being both that's a bitch." --\--- /
- >"I wanted to take my brain to hell and back and see what I had left." \ \ //
- >"This howling in the distance, it's a captivating sound. \ \/
- > Can't tell if it's ecstasy or pain..." -DW \/
-
- Devin,
-
- with respect, since 4.2A, I believe that the following is the situation:
-
-
- RISC Xws(8X)
-
- Name
- Xws - 2D X server for RISC machines
-
- Syntax
- Xws [ options ]
-
- Description
-
- The Xws command starts the X server. The Xws command supports the fol-
- lowing hardware configurations:
-
- DECstation 3100 Single Screen Color Workstations
- DECstation 3100 Single Screen Monochrome Workstations
- DECstation 5000 Series Single Screen 2D Color Workstations
- DECstation 5000 Series Single Screen Monochrome Workstations
- DECstation 5000 Series Multiscreen 2D Color Workstations
- DECstation 5000 Series Multiscreen Monochrome Workstations
-
- Taken from the man pages for Xws. A 2D Color (Colour) Workstation is a PX or HX
- based machine.
-
- Regards
- Richard Sharpe
- These opinions be mine, Digital has its own!
-