From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 07:29:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA04722 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA04685 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 07:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) id KAA12144; Thu, 30 May 1996 10:31:48 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199605301431.KAA12144@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: X-Windows Server To: eharley@absinthe.lightside.net (eharley) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:31:47 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "eharley" at May 30, 96 06:59:11 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have a FreeBSD box and I also have a Xterminal all on the same ether > line. Is it possible to run a xwindows server from the fbsd box and run it > from the xterm? i want to know because I only have an EGA monitor for the > fbsd box and 16 megs of ram. Most certianly!! You need to run xdm on the FreeBSD box. Install the XFree86 distribution but you don't need the actual servers. ( you can use the mono one though I think but it is kinda useless ;-) Since you only have an ega monitor.. make sure that you edit the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file and comment out the line: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X you should then be able to use it as an xdm server. Make sure that you read the xdm man page and loot at the rest of the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and configure them properly for your setup. I currently have a similar setup ( although I use my vga console as well ) and some of my users have xwin32 servers for their PC and can connect and run without too many problems. Let me know of complications and I will be glad to help you out. -branson -- ======================================================================== branson matheson | branson@widomaker.com Ferguson SysAdmin | http://widomaker.com/~branson