Problems with emacs on IRIS under X

[Michael Gold]

   g> I am having trouble getting a version of emacs 18.57 built on an SGI
   g> Personal IRIS running IRIX 3.2.  It builds fine, and starts up fine
   g> (display works, it reads and successfully executes .emacs, etc.).  As
   g> soon as a key is hit, however, it dies a horrible death along the
   g> lines of:

   g> X Error of failed request:
   g>   Major opcode of failed request:  0 ()
   g>   Minor opcode of failed request:  0
   g>   Resource id in failed request:  0x0
   g>   Serial number of failed request:  65480
   g>   Current serial number in output stream:  116
   g> Fatal error (1).Hangup

   g> Has anyone already encountered, work around this problem?  Thanks,


You should read ~emacs/PROBLEMS.  I found the following there, which
worked for me.  Note that under IRIX 3.3 and emacs 18.57, this was not
necessary:

>>  
>>  * X Windows doesn't work if DISPLAY uses a hostname.
>>  
>>  People have reported kernel bugs in certain systems that cause
>>  Emacs not to work with X Windows if DISPLAY is set using a host
>>  name.  But the problem does not occur if DISPLAY is set to
>>  `unix:0.0'.  I think the bug has to do with SIGIO or FIONREAD.
>>  
>>  You may be able to compensate for the bug by doing (set-input-mode
>>  nil nil).  However, that has the disadvantage of turning off
>>  interrupts, so that you are unable to quit out of a Lisp program
>>  by typing C-g.
>>  
>>  The easy way to do this is to put
>>  
>>  (setq x-sigio-bug t)
>>  
>>  in your site-init.el file.
>>  

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