From: Tim Kirby (trk@cray.com)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 13:10:01 EST
Greetings. I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping this list might be
able to help me with. By way of background, I was doing a lot of work with
Sun systems up to about 1996 or so, then got "redirected". I'm back in the
Solaris world now and trying to catch up... *Sigh*
My first couple of questions relate to X11 issues. I have an environment
with a bunch of Sunblade 100/150's running 2.8 and in some cases 2.9.
In the "old days" Suns Xsun always seemed to be pretty bulletproof, but
I'm seeing all sorts of things blow it away these days regardless of the
currency of patching, 2.8 and 2.9. I'm curious to know if this is a
commonly observed behavior (things like "user scrolling in Mozilla can
crash Xsun").
Second, I'm going to build an XFree86 tree for these Solaris boxes - does
anyone have some ready hints as to what I need to do to make it support Type
6 Keyboards? I've seen some commentary on this for people building on Linux
boxes, but they seem to reference Linux specific configurations. Since I was
posting, I thought I'd see if anyone out there had a quick answer.
Finally, I'm looking for some background information to help me understand
how to "size" Solaris boxes these days. I used to be able to fairly
accurately estimate a system requirement with 2.5.1 or 2.6 on Sparc 5, 10,
20, SS1000 and SS2000 generation equipment; I have no idea what to make of
the subsequent Ultra series boxes and what I should reasonably expect from
the various generations thereof, particaularly since 2.8/2.9 seem to be far
more demanding on the systems. If anyone has any useful pointers to info to
help me decide between a Netra X1 and an E15k <grin>, I'd be grateful.
I will, of course, summarize any feedback...
Cheers
Tim
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