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- From: gjb@fig.citib.com (Greg Brail)
- Subject: Re: lrom won't display on a Sun
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- Organization: Citibank IBISM
- References: <1992Nov18.202612.23858@u.washington.edu> <1eer19INNoem@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:49:35 GMT
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- In article <1eer19INNoem@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.202612.23858@u.washington.edu>
- >dxxb@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barts) writes:
- >:For some reason, I can't get lrom (the HP LaserRom utility) to
- >:display on my Sun workstation running OpenWindows 3.0. Lrom displays
- >:just fine on an HP-UX or Apollo display, but when I set DISPLAY to
- >:a Sun, it just sits there and does nothing after I see the message:
- >: Checking nero.ce:0.0 for use as the X Windows display server
- >:
- >:Other HP X clients (e.g. xterm) work just fine on the Sun.
- >Wait around 20 minutes. If it appears, you've encounted a Sun
- >OpenWindows bug, #1076332 and (what I consider to be) a timeout
- >problem with the HPs. The problem is fixed, according to Sun, in
- >OpenWindows 3.0.1.
-
- Or better yet, set the "*useColorObj" X resource on your Sun to "false"
- by editing your .Xdefaults file and re-running xrdb, or whatever else
- you do to change X resources on your Sun. This solves the problem.
-
- greg
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