[3791] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Solaris GNOME/X issue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Apr 2 20:56:06 2003
Message-Id: <200304030156.UAA07026@riff-raff.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Apr 2003 20:33:34 EST."
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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 20:56:04 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I can only hope that performance is acceptable without the Render
>> extension on m64 machines (which include the Ultra 5s and Sunblade 100s;
>> Sunblade 150s have ifb framebuffers which appear to support 32-bit
>> pixmaps).
That's not correct; both the Sun Blade 100 and 150 have ifb frame
buffers in our environment, although they were called by different
product names. The Sun Blade 100 had the Expert 3d Lite, and the 150
had the XVR-500. The Sun Blade 100's we ordered shipped with the card
as an option that wasn't factory installed, so if you didn't explicitly
configure the card (hotline did this for clusters with instructions I
provided) you'll still be using the onboard m64 video, which is...not
very performant. Since we'll still be supporting Ultra 5s next year,
your concerns are still valid, though.
>> First, the thing I'd like help with: I can't find any Solaris 9 patches
>> which update the X server. It's possible that there simply aren't any,
>> but the enclosed message from Erwann suggests there might be. If miki
>> and/or Garry could take a look, I'd appreciate it.
112785-13 is a Solaris 9 patch (released today) that updates Xsun. I
don't see anything in the list of bug ID's fixed that indicates your
particular problem is fixed, but I downloaded the patch anyway; find it
at:
/afs/ops.mit.edu/user/zacheiss/112785-13.zip
A more likely looking patch is 113098-04, which replaces
libXrender.so and claims to fix this bug:
4770510 RENDER should not be advertised unless required depths are supported
You can find a copy of that at:
/afs/ops.mit.edu/user/zacheiss/113098-04.zip
Those patches end up depending on 113096-02, which I pulled down as
well; that patch only replaces OWconfig. You can get it from:
/afs/ops.mit.edu/user/zacheiss/113096-02.zip
I suspect we want all of these for the 9.2 release.
Garry
