Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:35:38 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ghartl@gmail.com Subject: Re: Running X without a videocard Message-ID: <200811191035.mAJAZc21042934@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20081119112554.R6005@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (message from Wojciech Puchar on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:27:56 %2B0100 (CET)) References: <006b01c949da$2985e9f0$7c91bdd0$@com> <20081119112554.R6005@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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> 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 X windows has client/server built into the protocol: you can run an X application on a machine that has no video card and display the result on another machine that has video facility and an X display (called an X server). Of course, some things like watching a movie (you run the movie application on the machine without video card and display the images on the machine with video card) does not works well over the network: it is very slow (plus X does not have sound). > i don't know if they are working X11 servers for windows. Xming (free) Xwin32 (commercial) cygwin (free but big) and some others. Depending on the type of application you plan to run Xming can be a good choice. Olivier
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