[4883] in testers
Re: SunBlade X issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Jun 25 02:05:30 2001
Message-Id: <200106250602.CAA24179@gorf.mit.edu>
To: Nick Martin <nim@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:33:47 EDT."
<20010625013347.C7267@poit.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 02:02:50 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Oh, right. I knew there was something I was forgetting to report. I
>> solved this by adding 'ne ifb' to the line in the script that checks
>> display. However, testing ProE on the m64 display also fails due to
>> libxgl (I think thats it, I dont have it in front of me right now)
>> issues. I seem to remember these issues being noted on Athena 9.0
>> Ultra 10s previously.
Yup, this has been noted before; Solaris 8 and higher doesn't support
XGL graphics anymore. ProE seems to ship a stub xgl library that Alex
was going to look into installing; if that doesn't work, we can install
the Solaris 7 xgl packages on Solaris 8 without ill effects.
Garry
