X11 for A/UX

[Henry Melton]

In article <15226 at csli.Stanford.EDU>, anderson at csli.Stanford.EDU (Steve Anderson) writes:
> I recently received Apple's X package to go with A/UX 2.0. Some
> questions:

> 
> (b) How can I get X11 to recognize that I have a color monitor? It
> seems to think I have a 1-bit screen, although everything I can think
> of to set treats my Apple color monitor (with either the IIci builtin
> video or a SuperMac ColorCard/24) as 8 bits. I thought the X11 server
> was auto-configuring.

I just got mine running friday, so this sounds familiar.  To set 8 bit color
create a file named .X11 in your folder (executable) with the line
X -screen 0 -depth 8 
in it.  This is documented in "X11 User's Guide for A/UX/ page 5-25.

> 
> (c) I have a separate partition for /usr, precisely because I wanted
> to add X (and GNU, and AKCL, and.....) software on top of the A/UX
> distribution. When installing X, I couldn't see any graceful way to
> get the X stuff installed on that partition: if I told it to install
> on /, finstall complained that there wasn't enough room there (there
> isn't...  but when it puts things in "usr/lib/X11" on / they'll go in
> the larger partition), while if I told it to install on /usr, it put
> everything into /usr/usr/lib.... etc. I did the latter, and then moved
> everything to where it belonged, but there must be a more graceful
> way.

I tried installing everything in a different partition /users/apps that 
I had set aside for this kind of stuff, then make a bunch of soft links
to put all the X stuff in the proper locations.  A lot of manual work,
but it seems to do the job.
> anderson at sapir.cog.jhu.edu
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