Xsun, XsunMono, Xsun24 - Sun server for X Version 11
Xsun is the server for Version 11 of the X window system on Sun hardware.
It will normally be started by the xdm(1) daemon or by a script that
runs the program xinit(1).
XsunMono supports the BW2 monochrome frame buffer. Xsun supports
the CG2, CG3, CG4, and CG6 8-bit color frame buffers in addition to the BW2
monochrome frame buffer. On Solaris 2.5 it also supports the TCX as an 8-bit
color frame buffer. Xsun24 supports the cgeight 24-bit color frame
buffer in addition to the 8-bit color and monochrome frame buffers that
Xsun supports.
If specific framebuffer device files aren't specified on the
command line with the -dev switch or in the XDEVICE
environment variable, the server will search for all installed frame buffers
and will use all those that it finds.
Finally, if no specific framebuffers are found, the generic
framebuffer interface /dev/fb is used.
Xsun, Xsun24, and XsunMono support the Type-2, Type-3, and many variations of
the Type-4 and Type-5 keyboards.
Type-4 and Type-5 keyboards feature a key labeled AltGraph
which is a mode-shift key. The mode-shift key is used to generate the
symbols painted on the fronts of the keys. The mode-shift key works exactly
like the Shift, Control, Alt, and <Meta>
keys.
The ten function keys on the left side of the Type-5 keyboard may
be considered as having L1..L10 painted on their fronts. Shift-AltGraph will
cause different keysyms to be generated for some keys, e.g. the Type-5
SysRq key.
For compatibility with Sun's X11/NeWS server, the F11 and F12 keys
may be made to generate the equivalent X11/NeWS keysyms by using
mode-switch.
For backwards compatibility, the normal and mode-shifted keysyms
for the ten function keys on the left side of Type-4 and Type-5 keyboards
may be swapped via command line option. See -swapLkeys.
The X LEDs 1..4 correspond to the NumLock, ScrollLock, Compose,
and CapsLock LEDs respectively. Pressing the key once turns the
corresponding LED on. Pressing the key again turns the LED off. Turning an
LED on or off with e.g. 'xset [-]led [1234]' is equivalent to pressing the
corresponding key.
In addition to the normal server options described in the Xserver(1)
manual page, Xsun accepts the following command line switches:
- -ar1 milliseconds
- This option specifies amount of time in milliseconds before which a
pressed key should begin to autorepeat.
- -ar2 milliseconds
- This option specifies the interval in milliseconds between autorepeats of
pressed keys.
- -swapLkeys
- Swaps the normal keysyms for the function keys on the left side of Type-4
and Type-5 keyboards with the alternate keysyms, i.e. the keysyms painted
on the front of the keys.
- -flipPixels
- The normal pixel values for white and black are 0 and 1 respectively. When
-flipPixels is specified these values are reversed.
- -mono
- When used with the cgtwo, this option indicates that the server
should emulate a monochrome framebuffer instead of the normal color
framebuffer. When used with the cgfour, this option indicates that
the monochrome screen should be numbered 0 and the color screen numbered 1
(instead of the other way around).
- -zaphod
- This option disables switching between screens by sliding the mouse off
the left or right edges. With this disabled, a window manager function
must be used to switch between screens.
- -debug
- This option indicates that the server is being run from a debugger, and
that it should not put its standard input, output and error files
into non-blocking mode.
- -dev filename[:filename]...
- This option specifies the colon separated names of the framebuffer device
files to be used.
- -fbinfo
- This option indicates that the server should enumerate the available frame
buffers that it will use.
- XDEVICE
- If present, and if no explicit -dev options are given, specifies
the (colon separated) list of display devices to use.
X(7), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xinit(1)
The auto-configuration depends on there being appropriate special files in the
/dev directory for the framebuffers which are to be used. Extra entries
can confuse the server. For example, the X/160C in fact has the hardware for a
monochrome bwtwo0 on the CPU board. So if /dev has a special
file for /dev/bwtwo0, 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.
There is a bug in pre-FCS operating systems for the Sun-4 which
causes the server to crash driving a cgtwo.
- U. C. Berkeley
- Adam de Boor.
- Sun Microsystems
- David Rosenthal, Stuart Marks, Robin Schaufler, Mike Schwartz, Frances Ho,
Geoff Lee, and Mark Opperman.
- MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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Bob Scheifler, Keith Packard, Kaleb Keithley