*BSD News Article 25573


Return to BSD News archive

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
------------------------------------------------------------------------------