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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:816 comp.windows.x.i386unix:6230 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: Problems with xv-3.00a and a question. Message-ID: <michaelv.757711258@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <CJ3M5r.Cvp@news.direct.net> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 19:20:58 GMT Lines: 31 In <CJ3M5r.Cvp@news.direct.net> garbled@indirect.com () writes: >I am running Netbsd 0.9 on a 386-40 (4 megs) (makes you sick huh?) >and am runing Xfree86 2.0. I recently compiled xv3.00a from the sources >and am having a strange problem with it. It compiles fine.. with no >warnings, nor errors.. But when run.. it simpy sits there.. does >nothing. Ive put it in the bg, fg, killed it repeatedly and re-ran it.. >but all to no avail.. no windows are made.. and seemingly no effort is >even made to create one. >this is boggling me. Have you tried sending a segv (via kill -SEGV pid) to the process to get a core dump then anaylyzing the core dump to see where it was hung? >Also.. i was wondering if there was a way for me to increase my virtual >screen size to something like 1600x1200 even though i do not have video >memory to contain that. Is there any sort of program, or window manager >that would allow me to scroll around the screen like this, without loading >it all into VRAM? I use tvtwm like this daily on a DECstation, with enough virtual desktop to hold six complete physical screens. I've heard tell that fvwm (or whatever it's called) will also work like this. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------