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        !             2:        Sun X11 drivers -  10 September 1987
        !             3: 
        !             4: A joint production of:
        !             5: 
        !             6:        Adam de Boor            University of California,  Berkeley
        !             7: 
        !             8:        David Rosenthal
        !             9:        Stuart Marks
        !            10:        Robin Schaufler
        !            11:        Mike Schwartz
        !            12:        Frances Ho
        !            13:        Geoff Lee
        !            14:        Mark Opperman           Sun Microsystems
        !            15: 
        !            16: Special thanks to:
        !            17: 
        !            18:        MIT's Statistics Center,  for generously allowing us to monopolize
        !            19:        their Suns while we integrated the Sun code into the releases.
        !            20: 
        !            21: This version of the Sun X.11 drivers uses ../mi,  ../mfb and ../cfb to support
        !            22: the following configurations:
        !            23: 
        !            24:        Sun/2           bw2     cg2/3/5
        !            25:        Sun/3           bw2     cg2/3/4/5
        !            26:        Sun/4           bw2
        !            27: 
        !            28: The following configurations are NOT supported:
        !            29: 
        !            30:        Sun/1           bw1     cg1     (requires separate port)
        !            31:        Sun/2                   gp      (use /dev/cgtwo0)
        !            32:        Sun/3                   gp      (use /dev/cgtwo0)
        !            33:        Sun/4                   cg2     (we're working on it)
        !            34: 
        !            35: The drivers are completely untuned, and have inferior performance.  The code
        !            36: is lint-free.  It installs and runs on these configurations under SunOS 3.2,
        !            37: 3.4, and 4.0.  However, we must stress that it is completely unsupported, and
        !            38: if you have problems installing or using it you are on your own.
        !            39: 
        !            40: Things to check before building:
        !            41: 
        !            42: 1)     server/include/site.h - replace the font and rgb paths.
        !            43: 
        !            44: 2)     Make sure the fonts/Makefile uses the pad flag on the font
        !            45:        compiler to pad the glyphs to 4-byte boundaries.
        !            46: 
        !            47: 3)     If you want the non-portable zoids extension, add -DZOIDS to CFLAGS.
        !            48:        The non-portable zoids have worse performance than portable zoids
        !            49:        but prove that the extension mechanism works for output.
        !            50: 
        !            51: Then build the system by:
        !            52: 
        !            53: 1)     Make the dependency generator:
        !            54: 
        !            55:        cd makedepend ; make ; cd ..
        !            56: 
        !            57: 2)     Update the dependencies by:
        !            58: 
        !            59:        find . -name Makefile -exec chmod u+w {} \;
        !            60:        make depend
        !            61:        find . -name Makefile -exec chmod u-w {} \;
        !            62: 
        !            63: 3)     Go for it.  In the top-level directory, type
        !            64: 
        !            65:            make
        !            66: 
        !            67:        This takes about forty minutes on a 4/260, and somewhat longer
        !            68:        on other Suns.
        !            69: 
        !            70: 3)     Exit suntools or whatever other window system you use.
        !            71: 
        !            72: 4)     On the console, or from an rlogin connection,  start the server:
        !            73: 
        !            74:            clients/xinit/xinit
        !            75:        or
        !            76:            clients/xinit/xinit -- -dev /dev/??? [see below]
        !            77: 
        !            78:        If it's from the console,  you probably want to redirect the
        !            79:        output thus:
        !            80: 
        !            81:            clients/xinit/xinit >& /tmp/x11.out
        !            82: 
        !            83: 5)     xinit should start up an xterm window that acts as a console.  When
        !            84:        this xterm terminates, the xinit will kill the server.  You can also
        !            85:        start up client programs from a terminal or rlogin, but you must
        !            86:        first set the DISPLAY environment variable:
        !            87: 
        !            88:            setenv DISPLAY unix:0
        !            89:            clients/xterm/xterm &
        !            90: 
        !            91: 
        !            92: 6)     In general,  Xsun auto-configures to use all the available
        !            93:        framebuffers.  In some circumstances,  you may need to use a
        !            94:        -dev argument on the command line to prevent this:
        !            95: 
        !            96:        3/110LC, 3/110C, 3/60C 
        !            97: 
        !            98:        If you want to use color, use "xinit -- -dev /dev/cgfour0".
        !            99:        If you want to use monochrome, use "xinit -- -dev /dev/bwtwo0".
        !           100:                
        !           101:        GP, GP+, GP2
        !           102: 
        !           103:        If you have one of these GP's installed, use 
        !           104: 
        !           105:            xinit -- -dev /dev/cgtwo0
        !           106: 
        !           107: 7)     To shut the server down,  it  it with a Hangup or Terminate signal.
        !           108: 
        !           109: 8)     Xsun coexists with the SunWindows environment.  If you run Xsun
        !           110:        from a shell window under suntools, then Xsun will overlay that
        !           111:        desktop.  If you have two desktops, then 'adjacentscreens' will still
        !           112:        be in effect.  You may want to redirect the output of the server to a
        !           113:        window that is visible on another desktop.
        !           114: 
        !           115: 9)     If X crashes, it will leave the keyboard in a funny state.  There is a
        !           116:        program called "kbd_mode" that will reset the mode of the keyboard.
        !           117:        "kbd_mode -a" is the appropriate setting for the bare console, and
        !           118:        "kbd_mode -e" is the appropriate setting for running with SunWindows.
        !           119:        You may have to issue this command from a terminal or from an rlogin
        !           120:        connection.  If you run from the bare console, you can give the
        !           121:        command
        !           122: 
        !           123:        xinit ; kbd_mode -a
        !           124: 
        !           125:        so that the keyboard mode will ALWAYS be set properly when the server
        !           126:        terminates.  The kbd_mode program is in the server/ddx/sun directory.

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