guidelines for installation of MIT X11R4 on DECstation 5000

[Peter Mutsaers]

bgh at ice9.uucp (barry hannigan) writes:

>points needing mention:

>- UWS uses .pcf fonts, X uses .snf, so no font sharing
so just use X11R4 fonts.

>- DECstations have no "console mode". if the :0 entry is removed from the
>  /etc/ttys file, the machine hangs on startup. this is bad news if the X 
>  server has any problems.
put console on in /etc/ttys if something goes wrong.
install xdm as it should be (xdm started from /etc/rc, and set up config
files in /usr/lib/X11/xdm)

>- the fix for the "illegal lhs" error in ./clients/xterm/main.c
this error occurse because of a macro from /usr/include/stdio.h, which
has added an (int) typecast which now appears on the lhs.
Fill in the macro yourself in the source and omit the typecast.

>- any code for utilizing the 2d accellerator in a 5000 PX
??

>- a nice template file for imake
edit site.def and maybe Imake.tmpl according to the instructions. change
the LIBDIR and INCROOT for example.

>thanks in advance. 

>barry

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