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by **John Caywo** » Mon, 19 Dec 1994 12:47:46

>Subject: Openwin hangs on exit (Solaris 2.4, X86)
>Date: 17 Dec 1994 15:08:01 GMT
>Has anyone encountered this problem? When I exit from Openwin (on Solaris 2.4
>X86), it always hangs. I have to do a hardware reset to recover.

I had the same problem with a Diamond Stealth Pro VLB video card. A kind soul
(whose name I've forgotten) suggested I try turning *on* video shadow RAM in
the BIOS setup. Tho this is contrary to the installation docs, it worked for
me.

John Caywood,
wine drinker and vi bigot

by **Philip Thambidur** » Mon, 19 Dec 1994 00:08:01

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Has anyone encountered this problem? When I exit from Openwin (on Solaris 2.4
X86), it always hangs. I have to do a hardware reset to recover.

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by **Ivan S. Bisho** » Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:22:13

I have had this with 2.1 X86 for months, I was just about to go to 2.4 too.
When I exit OW on a Toshiba 4700, I get black-on-black type rather than
a hang, but I have to init 0 to get white on black back.

has anyone else seen this and IS IT FIXED in 2.4 X86???

Thanks, and yo'll have a great Xmas!
--
Ivan S. Bishop

by **A.Park** » Tue, 20 Dec 1994 20:22:00

>Has anyone encountered this problem? When I exit from Openwin (on Solaris 2.4
>X86), it always hangs. I have to do a hardware reset to recover.

I used to occasionally get the same problem with 2.2 on my IPC,
but since upgrading to 2.3, I've had no trouble. Something is a
little flakey somewhere.

Andy.

by **Doug To** » Fri, 23 Dec 1994 03:12:09

> I have had this with 2.1 X86 for months, I was just about to go to 2.4 too.
> When I exit OW on a Toshiba 4700, I get black-on-black type rather than
> a hang, but I have to init 0 to get white on black back.

> has anyone else seen this and IS IT FIXED in 2.4 X86???

> Thanks, and yo'll have a great Xmas!
> --
> Ivan S. Bishop

This sounds like the same problem we ran into a while back. We encountered
it on a SPARC Solaris system, but it probably doesn't make any difference.
The text below explains the problem and what we did to workaround it.

Quote:> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 12:59:24 MST
> From: tody (Doug Tody)

> I also looked into the problem JB reported with the blank screen on logout
> on the Solaris system. This is definitely a OpenWindows 3.3 bug. Evidently
> what it is doing is using pixel 255 for the text color for the console.
> The default xgterm or saomage sets this pixel to white so you have white
> characters on a white background, and can't see the text. If you invert
> the colormap so that black is at 255 then logout, the problem will
> disappear. If you use a colored colormap, you will see colored text after
> logging out.

> I poked around a bit and came up with the following workaround for this
> problem. In my .xinitrc file I added the following at the end:

> /usr/openwin/bin/reservecolors -nokeep <<EOF
> 255 black
> EOF

> This is executed when you log out of the window system, and it sets pixel
> 255 to black, so that you get black text on a white background for the
> console display (btw - since OW doesn't seem to manage these colors you
> could probably use this same trick to set pixel 0 to some color, so that you
> have a nice colored screen on logout, rather than white).

Doug Tody National Optical Astronomy Observatories IRAF project