Hi all, before filing a (possibly unnecessary) bug report, I would like to ask the Debian Alpha community if anyone else is having problems running emacs under X11.
My system is a Multia aka "the Vietnam of Alpha engineering" (definition recently coined by Wilko Bulte on the NetBSD alpha list). I am running latest woody, with XFree86 4.1 (4.1.0-13) using the TGA driver, xdm and fvwm. The problem: both emacs20 (20.7-10.1) and emacs21 (21.1-7) fail under X11 but run OK on the text console or when invoked with the -nw option. emacs20: runs OK on remote X servers (i.e. on the display of another machine) but freezes the whole user interface without displaying any windows when invoked on the local display. emacs21: never gets past the point where "loading image ... done" is shown in the minibuffer. I have very limited experience of programming/debugging under Linux so I do not have any idea where to start looking for the problem. There are two active bugs against emacs20 that are somewhat similar to my problem (#117219 on the MIPS platform and #122097 on GNU/Hurd). Can anyone reproduce this on an Alpha or suggest any corrective action, please? Regards, Topi
