> Now that *this* finally works on my test-Ultra-30, I found out that on > SPARC all the precompiled JDS apps (gnome, firefox, ...) (from the JDS > download center at opensolaris.org) are still > linked against the unre-distributable libs in /usr/openwin.
Admittedly this was only a quick guess, because firefox would segfault during startup, in case I lofs mount /usr/X11 over /usr/openwin on a default full-install of snv_95 sparc, (default, except that /usr/X11 is a symlink to the fox-gate's proto area [plus contains /usr/X11/lib/X11/xkb star'ed over from snv_95], and the that /usr/X11 [aka. the fox-gate's proto area] is also covering /usr/openwin). Before the latter gdm would finally work, you could log in into JDS/Gnome and everything would work except for the power-utility applet, which would start up, but would be placed on the Desktop, rather than being smoothly integrated into the lower desk bar. That all that does work goes back to Alan Coopersmith's and the X11 groups work from the last years. This is Xorg running on Creator 3 D cards (two in one Ultra 30, both work and can have screens attached at the same time. Xinerama is not supported by sunffb. But RandR and XVideo seem to work. BUT: All this seems to still depend on *something* inside /usr/openwin/lib (or the symlinks which point to it from /usr/lib). Then when you only have Xorg and cover or remove /usr/openwin, then the happiness is away. Important JDS apps don't start up anymore. And if you kill the server (while "svcadm enable gdm" has been done at first and gdm:default is online) it won't even start up gdm anymore (but the default gdm debugging output is not helpful). A wait a minute, it can have to do with ffb's fbconfig command or some of ffb's redistributable closed libs somewhere in /usr/openwin, that gdm doesn't start up Xorg anymore, ... let me check this ... p.s. Moinak, Alan: Is Xorg binary compatible to /usr/openwin/lib ? Or only on x86, but not yet on SPARC? Or 90% of libs yes, 10% no? -- regards %martin bochnig
