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From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: It actually works (almost 8-)
Message-ID: <48408@shamash.cdc.com>
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:45:23 GMT
Sender: usenet@shamash.cdc.com
Organization: ICEM Systems, Inc.
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Well, I've compiled X11R5 (pl17 with XFree1.1) and it actually works
on my machine (386-40, Diamond SpeedStar+, 8MB 1542B, 1.5GB of disk)
I'm quite impressed (although now I need a monitor greater than 14")
But there only two catches. I can't get PEX or the shape extentions
to work properly. PEX gobbles up lots of memory and starts the machine
to swapping so badly that nothing responds. Even after 10 minutes of
waiting I was not able to reclaim my Xserver. I guess that PEX just
requires a lot of memory (more than I've got anyway).
Shape extentions almost works. oclock for example, comes up with the
window manager title bar and a white circle. Then it just sits there,
nothing is ever drawn onto the white circle. It also slows down my
Xserver quite a bit while it is running.
Anyone have any suggestions about fixing these things?
BTW, for those of you who asked me, here is the disk space requirements
for X11R5. All results are in 512Kb blocks as given by 'du':
170151 ftped MIT distribution (mit-[1234].*, contrib-[123].* and fixes)
265396 mit directory: source, objects and executables (created with 'make World')
41769 /usr/bin/X11
40897 /usr/lib/X11 (around 43000 with the X libraries in /usr/lib/lib*.a)
5074 /usr/man (only expanded X libraries)
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523287 total (around 260MB for me, your mileage may vary)
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