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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R2 and Color Sun Displays
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Date: 10 Aug 88 02:58:50 GMT
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People frequently complain that the man pages are either missing,
or don't tell you what you need to know.  In this particular case,
these complaints are not justified.

Here is the troff source for the appropriate section of the Xsun
man page.

	David.

.TP
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The auto-configuration depends on there being appropriate
special files in the
.I /dev
directory for the framebuffers which are to be used.  Spurious
entries can disturb
the process.
For example,  the X/160C in fact has the hardware for a monochrome
.B bwtwo0
on the CPU board.  So if your
.I /dev
has a special file for
.IR /dev/bwtwo0 ,
the server will use it,  even though there is no monitor attached to the
monochrome framebuffer.
The server will appear to start,  but not to paint a cursor,  because the
cursor is on the monochrome frame buffer.  The solution is to remove the
.I /dev
entries for any device you don't have a monitor for.