Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X11 on RT with AIX? Message-ID: <478@pan.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 09:41:56 GMT Article-I.D.: pan.478 References: <148@sunquest.UUCP> Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland Lines: 36 In article <148@sunquest.UUCP> whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes: >Does anybody know if X11R2 will work on an IBM RT running AIX 2.2? (Anybody >tried it?) The servers for the RT on the MIT distribution tape are supposed to be for 4.3 (although I've seen reports that there are problems with them). They definitely don't work with AIX. The IBM group that works on 4.3 for the RT was at Xhibition, and I talked to a guy there for a while. He said that it wouldn't be too hard to convert those servers to AIX, since the displays are the same. The major difference is getting the keyboard and mouse input. I don't have time to look at this right now, though, so I can't say any more about it. IBM has announced what they call X release 2.1, which is based on V11 (their X release 1.1 was V10 based). I've had preliminary copies of this for about 6 weeks, and it is getting pretty good, although they still have a way to go, specifically in the are of event handling for all the events that were added in V11. This is especially noticeable when trying to use the more sophisticated of the V11 window managers. I'm currently using twm, but I had to make one minor change to it in for the RT. I've tried Siemens RTL, and actually got it to compile and run but no other clients will run with it, which sort of reduces the usefulness of the system... I also tried awm, and couldn't even get it to start up, but I suspect that was more my falut that awm's, and I didn't have the time to figure out all the setup configuration options. The announced release date for AIX X release 2.1 is this month, and so far IBM has done quite well in meeting their announced dates - unlike most of the other workstation vendors. So by the end of the month it should be possible to get V11 for AIX from IBM, at least in America. Here in Europe we generally have to wait 6 weeks or so from the rellease date before it finally shows up. Oh, the price is right, too - a couple of hundred dollars or so. jw