On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:37:37AM -0500, Michael wrote:

> >| Hmm, I'll try running Opera from Solaris with its display on the 
> >NetBSD
> >| box, but I'm pretty sure it will just work - the Xserver I'm running 
> >is
> >| stock XFree86 4.0 compiled straight from xsrc a month ago or so. To 
> >me
> >| it looks like something gets lost on the way from xlib to the 
> >Xserver.
> >|
> >but betweeen xlib and the xserver sits the x protocol which is 
> >transmitted
> >by sockets. If that gets corrupted, then you get immediately an error.
> At least when these sockets work properly. Hmm, what's corrupted is 
> almost exclusively stuff that requires pre-rendered graphics, so - is 
> MITSHM known to work between Solaris emulation and XFree86? If not - is 
> there a way to turn it off temporarily?
> 

I doubt it's a problem with X.  SVR4 uses sewers^H^H^H^H^H^Hstreams
for networking, which requires a shim layer in the emul code, which
gets more complicated when things need to be converted between a
32-bit app and a 64-bit kernel.  Also, solaris is big on threading
which has similar issues.  Especially since all the threading in
2.0 was re-done for SA.  I'd suggest those areas may be worth looking
at.

Eduardo