The solution, suggested by Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi_at_cc.hut.fi> and
joe_at_resptk.bhp.com.au (Joe Spanicek), is to install the video drivers
from Open3D 4.1 available in the Alpha Software Product Library. This
is easy to do if you're running 4.0A. You need to install these three
subsets:
O3DDWSBASE410 installed DWS Open3D Base V4.1
O3DDWSCOMMON410 installed Open3D Common V4.1
O3DDWSCONFIG410 installed Open3D Config V4.1
And one of the following subsets depending on the video card you have:
O3DDWSZE3410 DWS Open3D PowerStorm 4D40T/4D50T/4D60T V4.1
O3DDWSZLXE410 DWS Open3D ZLX-E, ZLXp-E, PowerStorm 3D30, PowerStorm 4D20 V4.1
O3DDWSZLXL410 DWS Open3D ZLX-L, ZLXp-L V4.1
O3DDWSZLXM410 DWS Open3D ZLX-M V4.1
O3DDWSF3000410 DWS Open3D Freedom 3000 V4.1
If you're running 4.0B, things are trickier because the installation
scripts for some of the Open3D subsets have a stupid bug that prevents
them from considering 4.0B to be later than 4.0A. The suggested
solution is to copy the installation kit from /cdrom/o3d410/kit to your
hard disk (say /var/tmp/kit), then edit these scripts in the instctrl
directory:
O3DDWSCONFIG410.scp
O3DDWSCOMMON410.scp
O3DDWSBASE410.scp
You need to change the line that looks like this:
DepEval OSFBASE4[0-9][1-9] ||
To read like this:
DepEval OSFBASE4[0-9][0-9] ||
That is, change [1-9] to [0-9] in those scripts, then install from the
directory on your hard disk (setld -l /var/tmp/kit).
Installing the Open3D 4.1 video drivers does appear to prevent the
crashes I could repeatably duplicate in Netscape and CDE, and also
eliminates the problem with pop-up menus garbling the pixels underneath
them.
joe_at_resptk.bhp.com.au (Joe Spanicek) also offered this workaround for
the pop-up menu save-under problem:
> The menu problem which causes a corrupted background image can be fixed
> by replacing in the '/usr/dt/config/Xserver' file:
>
> :0 Local local_at_console /usr/bin/X11/X -terminate -su -bs -I -ffbdoDMA 0 :0
>
>
> -su disables save under
> -bs disables backing store
> -ffbdoDMA is to modify behaviour of DMA
>
> I got this from Digital and this list !!
Received on Tue Jan 14 1997 - 01:25:03 NZDT