
Herb, 

I too had problems with the d.mon command while running Solaris 2.3.  If I
did not specifically run d.mon stop=x, and then quit grass, that particular
monitor was lost until I rebooted the machine.  When I upgraded to Solaris
2.4 these problems were solved.  Hope this helps.

Bill Green
Archaeology Lab
SUNY-Albany
wg1938@cnsunix.albany.edu


> 
> 
> I have just downloaded the latest GRASS release for Solaris2.x machines.
> 
> But whenever I run the 'd.mon x0'  It complains: 'Problem selecting [x0]
> will try once more.' .....The monitor window appears fine and shows up as
> running if I run d.mon and then select the choose option ....and then 
> list -f.......but I can't select it, it doesn't tell me why, it just returns
> without selecting it (whenever I try a graphic operation it complains that
> no output device is selected).
> 
> I'm using the monitorcap file as it came with the distribution (though I
> did try the XDRIVER.fifo and XDRIVER.n drivers but couldn't get them to
> work either....they always complained about not being able to set up a pipe
> for the output display).
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Herb Hasler.
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