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Hello!

At the risk of getting laughed off of Usenet entirely,  I have a
question:

I have a Linux machine running right now with an Orchid ProDesigner IIs
(Tseng Labs ET4000) video card, VGA monitor and the XFree86 3.3.1 with
the SVGA server.  Unfortunately, I won't be able to continue using that
monitor with the server, I will be forced to use a CGA (!) card and
monitor on this system.  (I hate being poor...  :)  )

Right now, X works fine, and I very much like it.  Unfortunately, once I
lose the monitor, I won't be able to keep running the SVGA server.  I
would like to continue running X, even if it were in mono mode.

There is a mono server for XFree86.  I've tried using it, but I've found
that it only supports (S)VGA chipsets, Hercules or a couple of other
mono adapters I've never heard of.  It doesn't support CGA.  Is there a
server that I can use to run on a CGA video card?  The CGA's video
capabilities don't seem to be *that* much worse than the Hercules

have...  Is there anyone out there who knows if there is some reason why
the Mono server couldn't be extended to run on a CGA card?  I'm almost
certain that I don't have the skills to write the driver but you never
know...  I've looked all over the Internet for a contact for the person
or persons who developed the Mono server but I can't find anything...

I also have a second, related question.  I have a second machine, which
is my main one.  It's running OS/2 Warp 4 and I want to load XFree86 on
it, mainly so that I can access my Linux box.  With that, of course, I
don't actually need to use the actual Linux console:  I could get by
just fine with my OS/2 machine (and its SVGA monitor).  Is there a way
to run an X server that will allow requests from another machine without
using the graphics hardware of the Linux machine?  This way I can still
use X to work with my Linux machine and have a monitor attached directly
to it if I need to use it.

Thank you very much for any information you can give me.

Tim Massey

Quote:> I also have a second, related question.  I have a second machine, which
> is my main one.  It's running OS/2 Warp 4 and I want to load XFree86 on
> it, mainly so that I can access my Linux box.  With that, of course, I
> don't actually need to use the actual Linux console:  I could get by
> just fine with my OS/2 machine (and its SVGA monitor).  Is there a way
> to run an X server that will allow requests from another machine without
> using the graphics hardware of the Linux machine?  This way I can still
> use X to work with my Linux machine and have a monitor attached directly
> to it if I need to use it.

  xhost +linuxbox

Where of course "linuxbox" is replaced by the hostname or ip address of
the linux box on your network. (I've not actually tried this on OS/2 but
it wokrs on every other system with X-windows that I've used.) Then, open
a telnet session to the linux box. Within this session issue the command:

  export DISPLAY=os2box:0

if using bash or

  setenv DISPLAY os2box:0

(I think) if using csh. Of course replace os2box w/ hostname or ip address
of the os/2 box. Now, any X programs you run from this telnet session will
show up on the os/2 X display. For instance to open an xterm:

  xterm &

Bing! You should now have a Linux xterm on your shiny OS/2 box. IUt's
probably possible also to use rsh or rlogin to soomewhat automatwe this
process but I'm not sure how to do it. (But htne I can't speel either so
who would trust me? ;)

Quote:> [...]
> Is there a way to run an X server that will allow requests from
> another machine without using the graphics hardware of the Linux
> machine?

xdm will present a login window to any host over the network.  So
(under Unix, but XFree86-OS/2 should be similar) you just do a
`X -query linuxhost', or even a `X -indirect linuxhost' if there are
other X hosts on your network.

Hope this helps,
        Alex

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