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- From: matt@jafus.mi.org (Matthew Braun)
- Subject: Re: Rice's AIX-RT X11R5 binaries
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.020637.5345@jafus.mi.org>
- Organization: The Eccentricity Group - East Lansing Division
- References: <1048@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 02:06:37 GMT
- Lines: 91
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- In article <1048@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> mjr@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Mauricio Rosales) writes:
- >I downloaded the X11R5 binaries from brazos.is.rice.edu - extracted and
- >installed it according to the instructions. When I run most of the binaries
- >I get back the message "Killed". If I run just ./X it starts to come up
- >and then hangs.
- >When I run it with dbx I get the error:
- >store: could not write instruction at 0x100187e8
- >
- >I'm running AIX 2.2.1 whith the latest CSD's on an RT model 130.
- >
- >Has anybody run across this problem or have any idea how to fix it?
- >
- >
- > Mauricio Rosales
- >
-
- I mailed the person that build those binaries and this was his reply:
-
- From: Michael Francis Brantley <brantley@Princeton.EDU>
- Subject: Re: X11R5 server
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 7:42:17 EDT
-
- > I'm trying to get the X11R5 binaries from brazos.is.rice.edu running on my
- > RT type 6151 model 115 running AIX 2.2.1. When I try to run xinit or
- > startx it just says 'Killed' or 'startx: <pid> Killed'. I assume there is
- > a problem with not having some default files like a .xinitrc and maybe
- > others. Those types of files weren't included with the files from brazos.
- > But if I try to run the server all by itself by running 'X', it loads for a
- > while then gives the following error:
- >
- > Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/site/X11R5/lib/X11/rgb'
-
- Your problem here is that you didn't set up the links as described in the
- README.R5 directory. The symbolic link from /usr/site/X11R5 is necessary
- for it to work properly.
-
- [stuff deleted...]
-
- > Didn't find an IBM 5081 Graphics Adapter
- > Couldn't open any screens.
- >
- > The rgb file doesn't exist, and I'm pretty sure that I don't have an IBM
- > 5081 Graphics Adapter. The X server also has a '-mpel' option which I
- > tried and that doesn't work either. Basically I'm not sure which graphics
- > adapter I have. When I run the 'termdef' program it says 'ibm6155'. When
- > I looked up Display Options in the 'User Setup Guide and Options
- > Installation' manual, I found that my adapter looked like the 'IBM RT PC
- > Extended Monochrome Graphics Display Adapter'. So is this supported by the
- > current X11R5 server, or does it exist and can it be compiled???
-
- Yes, the code for the 6155 (or APA16) display is supported, though I did not
- compile the support into the server available on brazos.is.rice.edu. You
- are going to need to build the server yourself. To do so, you'll need to
- download all of the files in brazos.is.rice.edu:/pub/aix_rt/X11R5.src and
- follow the directions in the patchfile. Once you have the distribution
- unpacked, edit the mit/config/ibm.cf file to change the "ibmIncludeAPA16"
- preprocessor variable to "YES" and "ibmIncludeMPEL" to "NO". This should
- also shrink the size of your Xserver considerably.
-
- > Also another question I had about the binaries, why are they so big? Were
- > they or can they be compiled with shared libraries? It is pretty
- > ridiculous that such a short program like 'xlogo' is over 750K, and the
- > rest of the programs are also big.
-
- AIX 2.2.1 doesn't support shared libraries. The compiler just creates huge
- executables.
-
- I hope this helps. I should have thought to make an APA16 server available
- before leaving Rice, but I didn't. Also, I have not tested the APA16 server
- myself, I've only been told that it worked by others.
-
- Good luck -
- --
- Michael Brantley
- Department of Computer Science
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
- (brantley@princeton.edu)
-
-
-
- It sounds like X11R5 supports the RT/AIX for the APA16 display, but
- hasn't been compiled. If anyone out there with enough disk space could
- compile the X11R5 server for the APA16 display (only, don't want the
- binary to be any bigger than needed) and let me (everyone) know where
- to get it from. It would be nice if a different X server is build for
- each display that is supported.
-
- Hope this information answers your question. And hopefully someone
- will respond to this request to build the server for all the displays.
-
- Matthew.
-