In order to support the S3Trio3D card in our IBM computer, we purchased
the "Xaccel" X server from Xi Graphics. This works fine except for our
Swing Java applications. If we run the card in its accelerated mode,
then the display is corrupted and the Swing JFrame never fully
displays. If we run the card in "frame buffer only" mode, then the
display is OK, but our Swing application will only start one time
withour rebooting the computer. If we start the application and then
exit. On any subsequent start, it hangs on "new JTextArea(...)". There
is no error message of any kind. We can workaround this problem by
starting java with the "-v" option and we let the verbose output display
to the screen. If we pipe the verbose output to a file, then the
application still hangs.
The distribution is RedHad 5.2 with the 2.036 kernel. The JVM is the
latest 1.1.7 glibc Intel version from BlackDown. Our computer is an
IBM 300PL with 128 MB RAM. Our application does run correctly on other
platforms and also on Linux using the new 2.2 kernel with the free X
Server which supports frame buffers.
Cynthia Jeness
