[Info-vax] 8.4 and DECwindows CDE login box not coming up

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5564ac9a$0$32288$c3e8da3$cc4fe22d at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> > How come?  Just a simple verification if the hardware is in order, to
> > see whether a specific video card works in another system (again, if
> > you have one where it will work in, of course), for instance.
> 
> If the DECW$SERVER process comes up and the screen turns from the VGA
> character cell console to the grey screen with hourglass mouse icon,
> then the odds are very good that the graphics card works and has been
> recognized.

Right.

> > How do you know that for sure?  For instance, do you have certain X11/
> > DECwindows modules for hardware-acceleration loaded?  I don't recall
> > how and what is exactly utilized (with regard to "Open3D" and such),
> > but maybe it's the reason you might only see the mouse cursor?
> 
> Generally, you get a console (sys$output) error if a X application needs
> some extension not present on the target X terminal.

Right.