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Re: SunBlade X issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Sun Jun 24 23:18:09 2001
Message-Id: <200106250318.XAA06834@spy-hunter.mit.edu>
To: Nick Martin <nim@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Jun 2001 19:05:29 EDT."
<20010624190528.A7267@poit.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:18:06 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Thanks for reporting these.
>> First, on the 3D card (ifb), but not the built in video (m64)
>> XDrawStipple doesnt seem to work. This is most noticible in twm window
>> borders. Stipple appears simply as black. If I futz with display depth
>> and mode, the stipple turns different colors (I got white and yellow as
>> well). This has been confirmed by tibbetts on a different machine.
Thanks for reporting this. I've been able to reproduce it; it's not
fixed by the most recent Xsun or ifb driver. I'll look into narrowing
it down and possibly reporting it to Sun.
>> Second, whenever I try to load an app that might have 3d stuff on the
>> ifb display (ProE, xmms OpenGL vis plugin, libSDL binaries) I get
>> logged out. I believe this is just X dying, but I have not confirmed
>> this. This does not occur on the m64 display.
I couldn't reproduce this, but I noticed the scripts for launching
proe weren't treating "ifb" as an acceptable device; I'll ask Alex to
fix this.
>> Also the built in video card has a tendancy to revert to 8-bit. I've
>> been playing with /etc/athena/login/config to try to get it to
>> default to 24 bit color. xdpyinfo seems to indicate the display
>> supports 24bit, but the default is still 8bit PseudoColor.
I just submitted patches to fix this.
Garry
