Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:26:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small Disk Xterminal Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970327001555.13538D-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970326224530.20364A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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Hi Chris; On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Chris Coleman wrote: > I have about 5 Hewlett Packard 486 DX66 Computers with 80 meg Hard drives. > I want to set them up as xterminals to run programs off of a larger > FreeBSD Server. I tried looking in the archives and found some discussion > on this topic. But I was unable to discover how this was resolved. works great. i am sitting at one. it is a 486/133 now, but it used to be a 386/33 with 6meg of ram! > I want only bare minimum files on the X terminal, and I want to configure > the rc files to start up only the X server and go right into an > authentication from the XDM Server on the larger FreeBSD Machine. u can do this, i might put the X11R6 stuff on the local drive ( but not the apps ) because it is faster. u can get the bindist and x11r6 on your 80meg drive. > I assume I will use NFS to set up the Xwindows applications that I want to > run. right right > > I want the users at the X terminals to be logging in to the FreeBSD > machine becuase I don't want to have several accounts for my users. Will > this require NIS? Or can the XDM some how handle this? dont want to have several accounts? meaning different accounts on different machines? it wont matter, dont create any accounts on the local machines, just toss up xterms from the file server. > Is there any problems with what I have proposed, has any one done this? well yes, there is a problem, your video cards! wtf are they? you are sol if u cant get them to pretend to be something else. and, given my experience with hp products, they are probably based on a trident, tseng, wd or cirrus chipset, but the rest of the implementation will be reverse-polish-sysV video weirdness, just like their operating system. i would suggest driving up to seattle and hitting any number of used computer stores and picking up used cards. unless the cards u have have some explicit mapping to some other known supported card. > Let me know what problems I am likely to encounter and what basic steps > that I will need to do to get started. > > P.S. Any one ever get Xwindows working with an HP Ultra Video Card? > > Thanks > > Christopher J. Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) > Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 > Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor > FreeBSD Book Project: http://vinyl.quickweb.com/~chrisc/book.html > Disclaimer: Even Though it has My Name on it, Doesn't mean I said it. > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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