From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 10:35:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5E11065672 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C218FC2C for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mAJAYoCs034256 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:34:51 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.2/8.12.11) id mAJAZc21042934; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:35:38 +0700 (ICT) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:35:38 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200811191035.mAJAZc21042934@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl In-reply-to: <20081119112554.R6005@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (message from Wojciech Puchar on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:27:56 +0100 (CET)) References: <006b01c949da$2985e9f0$7c91bdd0$@com> <20081119112554.R6005@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ghartl@gmail.com Subject: Re: Running X without a videocard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:35:43 -0000 > 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