Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:14:44 -0500 From: "Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com> To: <freebsd@celestial.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Running X without a videocard Message-ID: <000001c949e4$35403020$9fc09060$@com> In-Reply-To: <20081119001952.GA28809@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <006b01c949da$2985e9f0$7c91bdd0$@com> <20081119001952.GA28809@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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Whoa this is way beyond me I think...can you direct me to a howto or the like. X11 over SSH good lord....i'm out of touch with *NIX.. Am i to understand that i could run a pretty nice (not gnome or kde) but one of the less intense interfaces over ssh (this is on an internal network so connection speed isn't an issue. 6 years, and I have admin alzheimers' Thanks Gary -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell Sent: November-18-08 7:20 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running X without a videocard On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Gary Hartl wrote: >Hi all; > >More questions... > >I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. >There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran >solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that > >I'm wondering if it is possible to do the same with FBSD. You should be able to run X clients on the remote machine easily via ssh. There's no requirement for video cards, only that the appropriate X11 software be installed on the remote system. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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