My original post:
>Hi
>
>On my sparc 5's with 24 bit tcx screens, netscape 2.0 does not
>scroll correctly. It leaves "after images".
>
>Is this a netscape bug or a solaris bug?
>
>OS = Solaris 2.4 hardware 11/94 + patches + recommended patches
>
>From dmesg:
>SUNW,tcx0 at sbus0: SBus slot 0 0x800000 and SBus slot 0 0x2000000 and SBus
>slot 0 0x4000000 and SBus slot 0 0x6000000 and SBus slot 0 0xa000000 and SBus
>slot 0 0xc000000 and SBus slot 0 0xe000000 and SBus slot 0 0x701000 and SBus
>slot 0 0x200000 and SBus slot 0 0x301000 and SBus slot 0 0x0 and SBus slot 0
>0x240000 and SBus slot 0 0x280000 SBus level 5 sparc ipl 9
>SUNW,tcx0 is /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/SUNW,tcx@0,800000
>tcx0: revision 1, screen 1152x900
It turns out this is a known solaris 2.4 bug. It can be worked around
by starting the xserver with the -nominexp option.
It is probably cured by these patches (though I haven't tested this yet)
101923-08: Solaris 2.4: TCX Jumbo patch
102057-25: OpenWindows 3.4: Server (Xsun) Jumbo Patch
101753-17: XGL 3.1: XGL Jumbo Patch
Which are available at ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/sun/all_patches and
ftp://ugle.unit.no/pub/unix/sun-fixes/
Thanks to:
tim@Access.COM (Tim Wort)
reg.kranz@amp.com (Greg Kranz)
<kurt.stype@babss.COM>
"Daniel J Blander - Sr. Systems Engineer for ACS" <Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com>
Casper Dik <casper@Holland.Sun.COM>
John Rosenberg <jcr@ipl.bwh.harvard.edu>
"Michael R. Zika" <zika@oconto.tamu.edu>
Phil Poole <poole@ncifcrf.gov>
Phil Antoine <antoine@RadOnc.Duke.EDU>
sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)
Ej
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