From: mp3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Francis Polis) Subject: MGR and emacs Date: 14 Jul 1992 04:45:33 GMT
I installed MGR on my machine, and most of it went well, but I have a
few comments and problems.
1) Since only a ms-mouse driver was included, I had to hack together a
driver for my mouse (Logitech series 9 serial mouse, MSC protocol by
default).
2) In 1024x768 mode, the screen showed two images. Is this because my
display is interlaced?
3) There are very few clients. Many of the programs in demo.tar.Z
wouldn't compile, which I found odd, because some of those which
didn't compile could be ported very easily, some by changing the
include of sgtty.h to termios.h.
4) Emacs and MGR don't seem to get along. I wrote a program to set
the NOBUCKEY flag, and the shell gets the meta keys, but emacs
doesn't. Emacs works fine outside of MGR. Also ^S and ^Q don't get
through to emacs, which makes it hard to use.
5) I ran out of ptty's, since there were only 4. I changed NR_PTYS to
16 (the number of ptty's in /dev) and recompiled the kernel. I still
have trouble opening new windows though. Usually the window opens
correctly, but sometimes I get the message
PANIC: Error during _quit(): No such file or directory
or
PANIC: Error during _quit(): Invalid argument
or both errors. When this happens, all the open windows freeze and a
core is dumped. I can still open new windows though, so it looks like
part of MGR didn't dump core.
My hardware:
486/33 AT clone with AMI BIOS, 4MB RAM, 8MB swap
JAX-8212 1MB Super VGA card (Trident 8900C)