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- A joint production of:
-
- Andy Pierce IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
-
- Ron Harter IBM Austin
- Terry Wang
- Jeanne K. Smith
- Jim Miller
- James Miller
-
- Walt Daniels IBM T.J. Watson Research
- Steve Smith
-
- Bob Scheifler MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- Keith Packard
- and everyone else at the X Consortium!
-
- This version of the IBM X11 driver uses ../mi, ../mfb and ../cfb to support
- the following configuration:
-
- RISC System 6000 with skyway adapter (8 bit color adapter)
-
- All other configurations will NOT work! However the release 5 clients
- and libraries should build and run on other RISC System 6000 platforms.
- It should also be noted that this version of the X server does NOT support
- the AIX X extensions, such as Display PostScript (*) or GL.
-
- (*) Trademark of Adobe System Incorporated
-
- This version of the server does not use the same font format as AIXWindows
- does, and you may run into some inconsistencies with applications which
- expect AIXWindows fonts (especially InfoExplorer).
-
- The code supplied with this release, while it has been tested with the skyway
- adapter, is completely unsupported, and if you have problems installing or
- using it you are on your own. You may find, in your particular
- environment, the performance of this server is different from that of
- the AIX product server. If the performance in your environment is
- not acceptable, then you should stick with the product level of the
- server. The performance of this server is not indicative of the performance
- of the AIX product level server.
-
- Things to check before building:
-
- 1) Decide if you want to build the server. If not, change the line
- in config/ibm.cf from:
- #define BuildServer YES
- to
- #define BuildServer NO
-
- 2) Decide if you want the PEX extension to the server.
- If you do not, then add this line to config/ibm.cf:
- #define BuildPex NO
-
- 2) The existing configuration will install the shared libraries and
- executables under the /usr/local tree, to avoid clobbering
- existing product level executables. It is strongly suggested that you
- keep both the AIX product level of X and the release 5 level.
-
- Building the system:
-
- 1) Go for it. In the top-level directory, type
-
- make World
-
- This takes quite a long time because of the optimization that
- will be performed.
-
- 2) After the complete system build, you can install the shared
- libraries and executables by becoming superuser (chown is
- restricted to superuser!), and typing:
-
- make install
-
- Otherwise, you'll want to create a bunch of symbolic links to
- the various executables and data files scattered throughout
- the hierarchy.
-
-
- 3) On the console, put whatever you chose for BINDIR (in ibm.cf)
- in your search path before the /usr/bin/X11 directory, and then
- start the server:
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- xinit
-
- 4) xinit should start up an xterm window that acts as a console. When
- this xterm terminates, the xinit will kill the server. You can also
- start up client programs from a terminal or rlogin, but you must
- first set the DISPLAY environment variable:
-
- setenv DISPLAY unix:0
- xterm &
-
-
- 5) To shut the server down, press the Ctrl, Alt and Backspace keys
- at the same time, or kill the last program started by your .xinitrc
- file.
-
-