Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!SUN.COM!dshr From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X11R2 and Color Sun Displays Message-ID: <8808100503.AA05003@devnull.sun.com> Date: 10 Aug 88 02:58:50 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 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 3 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.