Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:01:23 -0500 From: "Seth Henry" <jshamlet@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A/V X terminal HOWTO? Message-ID: <F154zrYfkzpaNs3FH0u00002f4d@hotmail.com>
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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
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