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NAME

Xnews − Sony server for X Version 11

SYNOPSIS

Xnews [ option ] ... 

DESCRIPTION

Xnews is the server for Version 11 of the X window system on NEWS hardware.  It will normally be started by xinit(N), or perhaps by some script such as:

#!/bin/sh
home=/usr/x11
 case "$1" in
"")X=$home/bin/X;;
/∗)X=$1;;
∗)X=‘pwd‘/$1;;
esac
 clear
xinit -- $X -fp $home/Lib/fonts -co $home/Lib/rgb

CONFIGURATIONS

Xnews operates under NEWS-OS versions 3.0 on NWS700, NWS800,  NWS900 and NWS1800 architectures.  It normally auto-configures to use all available displays;  it supports the following display types:

mfb0

cfb0 used both as a color and a monochrome display

If you have one of these installed,  use the -dev argument to select /dev/cfb0.

On a multi screen , Xnews will use both the monochrome and color screens as if they were two separate screens side-by-side.  Sliding the mouse off the left and right edges will swap screens. 

OPTIONS

-mono
means use a cfb0,  if present,  as a monochrome device.  Default is use it as a color device. 

-debug
means that the server is being run from a debugger, such as dbx(1), and that it should not set its standard input,  output and error files into non-blocking mode. 

-dev takes the following arument as the name of the special file for a display device.  If any -dev arguments are supplied,  they are used.  The server does not auto-configure in this case. 

Other options are described under X(8).

ENVIRONMENT

XDEVICE
If present,  and if no explicit -dev options are given,  specifies the (colon separated) list of display devices to use. 

SEE ALSO

Xserver(N), xinit(N), X(N)

BUGS

1 The server code is completely untuned,  and has inferior performance. 

2 The auto-configuration depends on there being appropriate special files in the /dev directory for the framebuffers which are to be used.  Spurious entries can disturb the process.  For example,  the NWS800 in fact has the hardware for a monochrome mfb0 in the EXT slot.  So if your /dev has a special file for /dev/mfb0, the server will use it,  even though there is no monitor attached to the monochrome framebuffer. The server will appear to start,  but not to paint a cursor,  because the cursor is on the monochrome frame buffer.  The solution is to remove the /dev entries for any device you don’t have a monitor for. 

3 Autorepeat for the keyboard cannot be turned off. 

4 The bell volume cannot changed. 

5 Use of the pattern (as opposed to the blanking) screensaver may cause the server to loop forever. 

AUTHORS

Sony Corp.  Hideo Irie (Michael Knight), Mark Patrick, Patrick Lefevre

X Version 11  —  Last change: 1 May 1988