From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 7 15:55:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25969 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:55:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (root@haiti-94.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25964 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00427; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:29:11 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:29:10 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Shawn Stone cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Metro X Server (RedHat/Caldera Linux) on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <34DCE4B4.9C35331A@westal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Shawn Stone wrote: > I have (what I believe to be) a virtual terminal problem. Here it is: > I purchased Caldera OpenLinux over a year ago, before I was made to > realize that FreeBSD is a better product. One thing I did like about > Caldera, though (and about RedHat, for that matter) was the X server. > The only real reason I prefer MetroX is that it supports my card in > 16-bit color, whereas XFree86 does not. (I would either have to replace > my ISA card with a PCI one or revoce all but 14MB of RAM.) > > So I installed the Linux libraries, compiled Linux support into the > kernel, installed the rpm package, then rpm'ed the Metro X server onto > my system. All of that went without a glitch. Running MetroX (or any Linux binary X server) is probably beyond the scope of the Linux emulator. Have you tried a kernel with bounce buffers (such as the GENERIC kernel) and XFree86? Although at 16bpp, a 16 bit ISA card will probably be a bit slow anyways.. ---- A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip. - alex