From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 30 13:11:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 338A837B401 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 13:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moe.cs.duke.edu (moe.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.74]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26038; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (gallatin@localhost) by moe.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA05361; Thu, 30 May 2002 16:11:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15606.34666.364860.476623@moe.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:11:22 -0400 (EDT) To: Al Thomas Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 & Alpha Demi-Sable In-Reply-To: <3CF68508.F8628503@attbi.com> References: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC9B0@waexch1.qgraph.com> <15606.19751.93824.286989@moe.cs.duke.edu> <3CF68508.F8628503@attbi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please try to format your mail so that it is legible to others.. (72 columns) Al Thomas writes: > Drew ++ > Thanks guys, Aaron this box is my home webserver and not a critical piece > of machinery. > I do not want you to invest the time it would take to configure FreeBSD on > your alpha. > I am thankful for any suggestions you may have and I will continue to > attempt a solution. > Drew, I am curious about your suggestion of a 486 for X and conserver for > Alpha. > If I had another PIII machine running FreeBSD with a serial cable to my > server, > this would allow me to operate and configure the server through the first > machines > xwindows gui and monitor? I know bigger companies use this arrangement > for > managing multiple servers but I guess I never really thought how great > that would work for me. You'd use the serial console for the console part (boot management, fsck's after crashes, etc), and you'd ssh into the machine to manage it. > I have a PIII win2k machine my son uses as a game server which I intended > to convert > to FreeBSD. This arrangement would allow all management of the Alpha > through the serial > cable? Package install, Apache configuration etc all done with this > conserver? > This conserver would run in the PIII FreeBSD xwindows machine :). I think > I am getting it. Yes, but if you've just got one machine, conserver might be overkill. Just use your favorite terminal emulation program. > Drew to answer your previous question about if XFree86 ran on the Qvision > video > the answer is no. I also tried a Trident PCI video card, same symptom. I > would bet the same > failure. I do not have the knowledge to build x with symbols at this > point. These are skills > I hope to aquire. For now the command line is getting old :) and a > solution I must find. "a solution I must find" -- Like Yoda you speak ;) > I looked at conserver and I see three different development trees. Which > should I choose? I use conserver-com-7.1.3 Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message