From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 19: 1:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f154.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.15.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1477437B41B for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:01:24 -0700 Received: from 68.48.75.213 by lw10fd.law10.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:01:23 GMT X-Originating-IP: [68.48.75.213] Reply-To: jshenry@comp.uark.edu From: "Seth Henry" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A/V X terminal HOWTO? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:01:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Apr 2002 02:01:24.0022 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5460D60:01C1EA6A] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am looking at turning some Compaq IA-1 web terminals into X terminals. I tried using local software, but there wasn't enough RAM left after building RAM disks. They do, however, work very well as remote displays. Right now, I slogin to my main FreeBSD server and window Mozilla back. The local display runs the window manager. This works, but I would like to automate it - and add audio. Does anyone know of a howto on setting up xdm to login to a remote system? Also, has anyone messed with the network audio system? The goal is to be able to run a copy of xmms on the app server, and have the audio generated by the local sound hardware. Right now, I am looking at using Linux, because there is an existing setup (Midori), which contains the bulk of what I need (and it fits on the 16MB SanDisk). I can, however, run FreeBSD from a microdrive, though the microdrive introduces some nasty latencies. Any help or pointers appreciated. Lastly, if someone has setup a system like this, what kind of app server should I look at? Right now, I figure there will be two of these terminals. The existing server is a dual pentium pro 200 with 256Mb of RAM. Currently, it seems like I am more band limited due to the 10Mbps USB NIC than the memory or processors on the host. Thanks, Seth Henry _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message