| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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I have 4 KODAK KIMS workstations (VID08) made by DEC.
From what I have learned, they are "diskless"
VAXstation 2000's with a VR419 monochrome high
resolution monitor. They have 6 Mbytes of memory and
have a DECnet connection. They can successfully "boot"
off of the network device and be added as a member to
a cluster.
Before the site-specific startup happens, I receive
the following error messages:
%SYSGEN-W-OPENIN, error opening
SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]GACDRIVER.EXE
%SYSGEN-E-FNF, file not found
When DECwindows attempts to start up, it tells me that
no graphics device was found.
Another anomoly is that when a show cluster/continuous
command is issued, the hardware id says "VAXstation 2000 GPX".
I didn't know there was such a beast!
Is there any hope of having a driver for this system?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 543.1 | VWSENG::KLEINSORGE | Toys 'R' Us | Wed Apr 05 1989 13:54 | 21 | |
The Kapri (aka KIMS, aka ACTOR II) is supported ONLY
by VWS (WINDOW_SYSTEM = 2). You must get the VWS V4.1 FT
kit (see the notesfile VWSENG::VWS).
Yes they are diskless and have 150dpi 19" monochrome
monitors. They are direct intensity devices (4 intensity
levels) that look something like a GPX in the hardware and
are based on the VS2000 CPU. They are designed for Kodak
and are not a standard corporate product. They are replacements
for Microfiche readers and display raster images from optical disks.
The hardware also includes CCITT compression/decompression logic
in the image pipeline along with hardware image scaling and convolution.
The system is used as a bitonal system in use, the extra 2 grey
levels are used for anti-aliasing.
There are no plans (to my knowledge) of supporting DECwindows on
the Actor-II.
_Fred
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| 543.2 | Try this for yucks... | VWSENG::KLEINSORGE | Toys 'R' Us | Mon Apr 10 1989 22:12 | 18 |
FYI -
While I haven't tried it yet (hmmm maybe I'll give it a shot tommorrow)
install both DECwindows V5.1 and VWS V4.1 on the cluster and boot
up with VWS (window_system = 2), then look at note 101 and copy
the VWSDECW000.A saveset from VWSENG::VWS$KITS:[VWS_TOOLS] and install
it. The from the system account (while running VWS) invoke
@SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTUP.COM to start DECwindows... The X11 emulator
under VWS is the only means that I know of to get DECwindows on
the Kapri.
Disclaimer: There are still bugs being worked on in the V4.1 release
for Kapri. A new kit should be available in the next several weeks
to correct most of them.
_Fred
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