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From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Xvi?
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:55:30 GMT
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto

shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni) writes:
>I've heard mention of an "xvi" somewhere - an X-windows version of
>"vi". Does such a beast exist? If so, where is it?

On export.lcs.mit.edu (00-index.txt):

    This is a modified version of the X11R5 Text Widget.  It is designed
    to drop into the X11R5 source tree and replace the original X11R5
    Text Widget.  It will behave identically to the original, unless
    the resource startMode is set to "vi", in which case it will give
    you vi-like modal editing.  By Eric Bina.

      -rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp         95091 Oct 22  1991 ViText.tar.Z

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
From: smoore@unity.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore)
Subject: How can MWM work off of two configuration files?
Keywords: Motif, mwm
Organization: North Carolina State University Textiles
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:19:48 GMT

I would like to be able to control some MWM menus from a system-wide
configuration file while allowing the user to modify other menus. The
way I do this now is I have a script the user can run that copies a
.mwmrc file into their home directory concatenating a file called
~/.mwm_personal on to it.

In the initial .mwmrc file I reference a menu name that should be 
defined in ~/.mwm_personal. As a result the user can maintain one 
menu and I can maintain the rest. The problem is that
the user must run a script to keep up-to-date with my stuff.

Is there a way to have MWM use more than one configuration file?

Thanks.






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From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Getting 1152x900 with Orchid ProIIs
Date: 24 Dec 1992 10:05:56 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: paducah.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1992Dec23.233759.18811@husc3.harvard.edu*, maziere1@husc11.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
* The subject gives you the general idea.  I'm using an Orchid Prodesigner
* IIs under Xfree86.  The clocks are as follows:
* 
* Clocks 25 28 32 36 40 45 80 65 13 14 16 18 20 22 0 0
* 
* For #1 I tried the following timings:
*  "1024x768v"   80     1024 1032 1152 1384    768  784  787  823
* These give me 58 KHz Horizontal, and 70 Hz vertical which are well
* within the specs of my monitor (a MAG MX15F).
* 
* For #2 I tried these:
*  "1152x900"    80     1152 1160 1376 1548    900  920  940  948
* 
* Both modes produced snow on the screen in addition to the regular
* picture, which looked fine otherwise.  At first, I was going to
* return the hardware as defective, but I have been able to achieve
* goal #1 under MS-DOS using the drivers supplied by Orchid, so I
* must be doing something wrong to be getting that snow.

Try the 65-MHz dot clock to get about a 65-Hz refresh rate; my ET4000 book
says that's the upper limit--you may or may not have a chip that exceeds
this spec.  I can't see any flicker even at 60 Hz in 1024x768 (with some
tweaking of the sync and blank intervals) on a 14" Sampo AlphaScan+, and
I'm very picky.  I used to get a severe headache with 1152x900 at 62 MHz
in non-interlaced mode.  You might like to try the 65-MHz (a rough
calculation says you need a 60-MHz dot clock--but double check on this)
dot clock to see if you can get the interlaced mode working.  (I don't
know why people claim they get a headache with it--I don't, and the
picture looks very steady, except for some annoying moire pattern with
the root weave.)


Glenn
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Subject: Re: interlace info please
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:54:17 GMT



I've also experienced this in early attempts at getting a decent
interlaced resolution on my display. For me the secret lay in the last
two values in the timings line in Xconfig. For some reason changing
those values by increments of one or two finally got rid of the problem
you mention.

Can someone with more knowledge about timings explain what is happening
here?

regards,
-Jim.

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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: $HOME/Xconfig ???
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:01:41 GMT
Distribution: comp

>While reading the docs for XFree86 I noticed that the server first
>looks for a config file in the user's own home directory. I'd like to
>question the wisdom of this. The Xconfig file does not contain much
>you'd want to change on a user basis, but mostly settings dictated by
>the hardware on the machine.

Well, I mus admit that it is a bad hack, which shouldn't be there from
beginning. The rationale for me was to save some keystokes:

	emacs /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig is longer than emacs ~/Xconfig


Your arguments about security are very true. We (SGCS) have changed
this, so X386 now looks in /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig AND /etc/Xconfig
(and the related *.<hostname> variants.

- Thomas



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From: tjon@plains.NoDak.edu (Christopher C. Tjon)
Subject: STB Evolution SVGA Help Anyone?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:43:05 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

I need to know if anyone has properly configured X386 1.2e to run properly
with and Evolution SVGA Card.  Here are the specs on the card.

1280x1024 highest resolution
1MB Ram
Full 24 bit interface
Cirrus Logic 6D-5422 Chipset

When I bought the controller the tech support people at STB told me that
this chipset was a superset of et4000.  As it turns out they were lying 
when they said that the chipset was 100% backwards compatible to et4000.
Since this was 3 months ago the odds of returning the card are slim so I
would like to make it work.  If anyone has done this could you mail me
your xconfig file and any other relevent stuff.

Thanks
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From: sk@jenny.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Stefan Kirchberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: 32K or 16M colours?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:19:56 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jenny.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

In article <1992Dec22.130619.18414@news.lrz-muenchen.de>,
roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
|> >> If they are (which I doubt) they would be riciculously slow. Also
|> >> since they usually trade resolution for pixel depth that means X on
|> >> something like 640x480 (yuck!).

		<see below>

|> >Take a look at how the 24-bit SVGA's are implemented.  Packed 3-byte
|> pixels.
|> >It's going to make working on them rediculous.
|> 
|> I don't think 3byte pixels is that rediculus if you look at the memory
|> contraints given in todays SVGAs. But the price to pay is VERY high.

What about aligning them on 32bit boundaries and decoding only three bytes
each?
Of course, that would result in more memory banks.

But that is not the point since these cards are existing, and all of them have
this style of decoding 3 bytes per pixel --- new ones are likely to do it the
same way :-|

But then, it would even be an interesting opportunity to switch from the X11
desktop to a true color 640x480 screen, do some graphics there and switch over
back to X11. With M******** W****** that's possible, it redraws the whole
screen
and _even_does_not_crash_ (so far..). So I wonder if there is a way to
perform my
raytracing on Linux with true color while still using X11. The point is: it
would
not be neccessary to have a real X11 desktop with 16M colors, not even the
X11
graphics primitives are strictly required. It should only be possible to
suspend
X11 from controlling the screen. Switching back and forth while both
screens
modes are in use would be luxury (and nice because of using a debugger ;-),
but
that would require storing the contents elsewhere and restoring them when
switching.

	Stefan

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From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: XS3 ?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 12:04:08 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: paducah.cs.utexas.edu

> How much is the S3 card and server faster than Et4000 and XFree86 ?
> For Windows I know it is 10-20 time faster. Is the same for X ?
> Does xterm scroll in a reasonable way in XS3 ?

If you're talking about scrolling speed, "10-20 time faster" is overly
exaggerated.  Here are the scrolling numbers from xbench for an Orchid
ProII and a Diamond Stealth (55-MHz 86C911) on the same 33-MHz 386 machine:

	ProII: 1481901 Pixels/sec 
	Stealth: 11685333 Pixels/sec

FYI, even 20 or 30 million pixels/sec isn't fantastically fast, either.  But
my standards usually far exceed the current state of the art.  :-) 

> Does every S3 based card work with XS3 ?
> Can anyone suggest me a fast and common S3 card for XS3 ?

Try an Actix or Orchid card.  The XS3 people use them, so you should have
the least trouble.



Glenn
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: X386 on Hercules and X386 bugs and suggestions
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:23:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.052259.24129@athena.mit.edu> dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic) writes:
> 
> Almost everyone has a monochorme Hercules board laying around somewhere.
> They are quite obsolete offering only 720x348, but the nice thing about
> them is that you can get them to work simultaneously with a VGA  board
> and have two monitor heads controlled by your favorite X386 server.
> 
> So, as my classes ended last Wednesday, I decided to try out my luck and 
> write an additional driver to X386 to handle Hercules boards.  And it
> works! :-)  Partly...  Here are the problems and suggestions:
> 

Good for you.  When you get this working, send it to us and we will
include it in XFree86.

> [I was workong with X386 version supplied with mit X11R5 release]
> 

Big mistake.

> X386 handles VT (virtual terminal) switches quite poorly.  Things work
> well if one is using only one monitor, but when using two monitors,
> the routine x386VTSwitch from x386Events.c refreshes only the first
> screen when entering/leaving VT, and releases only the current screen.
> This might have been fixed by now, but this behaviour is undesirable
> when people are using two displays.  It seems to me that all screens
> would have to be released and refreshed when switching VT's.
> 
> Another problem is that EnterLeaveVT driver functions for the vga
> drivers are not "reentrant", while they should be.  If the server is
> running on two different boards, when releasing VT's or exiting
> (abnormally or normally) it has to call EnterLeaveFunc(LEAVE) on all
> of its active drivers.  If one of the drivers disables IO, the server
> will crash when it attempts to call the next board's
> EnterLeaveFunc(LEAVE).  I fixed it by explicitly calling
> EnterLeaveFunc(ENTER) before EnterLeaveFunc(LEAVE) in the generic vga
> EnterLeaveVT.
> 

This is handled in XFree86.  Along with lots of other bugs.  I suggest
you upgrade your sources to XFree86 1.1.  That will relieve a lot of
your problems.

> 
> But the biggest problem is tha mfb doesn't cut it for Hercules boards.
> Even though Hercules frame buffer is directly accesible, the lines are
> not mapped directly.  HGA mapps lines in increments of 4, and then it
> wraps back.  So my screen looks quite strange, having every line
> scrambeled around by a factor of 4.  Are there any mfb (or cfb)
> implementations that could be given a list of line pointers rather
> than just a frame buffer pointer and do the right thing?  I don't
> wanna rewrite mfb myself... :-(
> 

Now you know why there's no Hercules driver :-<.  It's not going to
be easy to make this work.

> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Davor
> 


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From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Anyone got XFree86 running on a Trident 9000?
Date: 29 Dec 92 11:23:38 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de

In <martin.725621948@marsh> martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas) writes:

[...]
>We have a TVGA card that uses the Trident 8800CS chipset (at least that
>what it says on the chip).  Will this card work with XFree86 1.1 ?
>I can't find any documentation to say if it will or not.

NO, it won't. 8800s are "brain damaged".
    
>Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux
From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: info for Oak Tech. 512k SVGA
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:36:01 GMT

I'm trying to get Linux running on my wife's computer, a Laser 386sx with
4 mb ram, and 100mb drive devoted to Linux, with another 100 mb drive for
dos/windows.

I seem to have a problem with getting xwindows to start up; I'm getting
the message back from the system that there's insufficient ram for
virtual console and that the devices aren't configured/there.

Can anyone supply info on what to add/modify to the Xconfig (and related)
file(s) to get Xwindows running on this machine?  I know that the monitor
and card will support 800x600x16...

-bob

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Help with Xconfig....
Keywords: X386, STB, Mitsubishi
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:09:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.164518.8715@spitpa.tscs.com> craig@spitpa.tscs.com (Craig Anderson) writes:
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>	I have an STB Powergraph ERGO VGA card with 1MB RAM, and
>	a Mitsubishi Diamondscan monitor, and a Logitech serial mouse
>	attached to /dev/ttys0.  I have been have a HELL of a time trying
>	to get them to all work together and get X up and running.
>
>	Here's what I know: (not much)
>
>		My STB has programable dot-clocks that go anywhere from 0-70Mhz.
>		The most common rates are 25, 28, 35, 36, 45, 50, 63, 65,
>		although the 63 and 65 are pretty rare.  It has a et400 chipset.
>
>		My monitor is a multisync with a maximum horiz refresh of 36Khz,
>		and a max vert refresh rate of 90Khz.
>
>	I have ( using the modegen[1,2].sc spreadsheet) gotten Xmono running
>	640x480:-(, but when I try setting it to 800x600 or 1024x768 using the
>	same settings, I get "not enough video ram for selected resolution"
>	messages.  Hhhmmmmmm, my vcard has 1MB on it, and I have used it
>	it 1024x768x256 mode B.L. (before Linux :-), so I know the card will
>	do it.  I have tried setting the param videoram to 1024 but the
>	message persists.  Both the chipset and the amount of vidram appear
>	to be self detected correctly when not set in Xconfig.

The problem could be with the combination of virtual resolution and modes
you have selected.  The actual virtual resolution used is 

  max(mode X sizes) x max(mode Y sizes)

So it is possible that all modes and the virtual size specified in Xconfig
fit separately into 1MB, but that the final virtual size used is too large.

Also, for the mono server, only 64KB is used, which means that the max
virtual size is about 800x655.

David
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From: stempien@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Brian Stempien)
Subject: Cardinal Windows Accelerator, 24 bit
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:08:02 GMT

Hello!
  I am purchasing a new system tomorrow and the video card that comes on it is a
Cardinal 24bit windows accelerator. About the only thing that the sales lady
could tell me about it was that is uses a Cirus (sp??) accelerator chip. I don`t
know if this means it has a normal VGA chip set plus the accelerator or what.
I looked up Cardinal boards in a magizine I have and it said nothing
about a 24bit board. Either it is new, or the ad is wrong. My main questions are,
does anyone have the board? and if so does it work with Xfree? I don't need 24
bit color support or anything like that in X, just a running server (mono is even
fine). Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Re: [Q]: How do I change xterm font?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 23:50:53 GMT

ail8070@tamuts.tamu.edu (Andy I. Liaw) writes:

>Just a simple question: how do I specify a larger font for xterm?
>I'm running Xfree86 1.1 under linux in 800x600, and the default fonts
>are a bit too small on my 14" monitor.

xterm -fn 10x20 (you can use any other fontname for -fn, and you may
also set -fb for bold) should work.  You can also set it up as an X 
resource if you want ALL xterm's to come up with the other font...

Alex
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From: kehcheng@netcom.com (Keh-Cheng Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: XS3 ?
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:21:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article <ljc1ooINNggd@paducah.cs.utexas.edu> glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai) writes:
>
>> Does every S3 based card work with XS3 ?
>> Can anyone suggest me a fast and common S3 card for XS3 ?
>
>Try an Actix or Orchid card.  The XS3 people use them, so you should have
>the least trouble.
>
Can someone please post the address and telephone number of Actix?
Thanks.
From: heimir@plusplus.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: AltGr bindings in clients (esp. xterm)
Date: 4 Jan 93 00:38:54 GMT
Organization: Plusplus Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland

Can somebody out there tell me how to alter the Alt-key bindings
especially for xterm in XFree86.  I had this all working fine in the
Roell X11R4 version (with a strange combination of ttymap and xmodmap).
Xmodmap entries seem to work for the first two entries following the
keycode, but I cannot get any modifier to work. For example:

keycode 20 = odiaeresis Odiaeresis backslash

I get my Oe's but the backslash won't show, I've tried to bind my Alt-keys
to mod1 and mod3 without any luck.  What shall I do?
BTW, I'm running ISC 3.0 on a 486.
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
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From: dmatic@athena.mit.edu (Davor Matic)
Subject: X Hercules - I did it!!!  :-)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:23:50 GMT

I just got mfb completely macroized, and it can address mapped frame
buffers.  And it works! :-)  Still some minor bugs here and there,
but most of the drawing operations work fine.

Now, I've noticed the same problem with my server that was reported
about Xmono.  I suspect that GetImage and PutImage routines from mfb
can't handle MSBFirst bit order and LSBFirst byte order at the same
time.  Has anyone done any investigation on that theme?

Regards,
Davor
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: Gateway 2000 Crystal Scan w/Speedstar 24X
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:38:32 GMT

Does anyone have Xconfig settings for the Gateway 2000 Crystal
Scan 1024 NI with Speedstar 24X adaptor?  If so, please e-mail.

Thanks.
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