Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:01:12 -0400 From: Al Thomas <w3craft@attbi.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 & Alpha Demi-Sable Message-ID: <3CF68508.F8628503@attbi.com> References: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC9B0@waexch1.qgraph.com> <15606.19751.93824.286989@moe.cs.duke.edu>
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Drew ++ Thanks guys, Aaron this box is my home webserver and not a critical piece of machinery. I do not want you to invest the time it would take to configure FreeBSD on your alpha. I am thankful for any suggestions you may have and I will continue to attempt a solution. Drew, I am curious about your suggestion of a 486 for X and conserver for Alpha. If I had another PIII machine running FreeBSD with a serial cable to my server, this would allow me to operate and configure the server through the first machines xwindows gui and monitor? I know bigger companies use this arrangement for managing multiple servers but I guess I never really thought how great that would work for me. I have a PIII win2k machine my son uses as a game server which I intended to convert to FreeBSD. This arrangement would allow all management of the Alpha through the serial cable? Package install, Apache configuration etc all done with this conserver? This conserver would run in the PIII FreeBSD xwindows machine :). I think I am getting it. Drew to answer your previous question about if XFree86 ran on the Qvision video the answer is no. I also tried a Trident PCI video card, same symptom. I would bet the same failure. I do not have the knowledge to build x with symbols at this point. These are skills I hope to aquire. For now the command line is getting old :) and a solution I must find. I looked at conserver and I see three different development trees. Which should I choose? Thanks for all your help, Al Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Well, I'm not terribly interested in having X work on these old > machines. IMHO, servers are better administered with a serial console > than X windows. > > I'm just interested enough to give Allen suggesetions that might help > to solve his problems, but I think that if he values his time & wants > an X server head for his server-class alpha, he'd be better off with > an old 486 for X, and conserver for the alphas console. > > Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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