Re: [foxboro] Remote display manager on a moder X server?

Do you have the foxboro fonts available (xlsfonts). You could try 
(auto)mounting 
the /usr/fox/wp/fonts from an AW and set the appropriate directory in the 
XF86Config file.

Best of luck getting it to work with >8bit colour though. The blink task will 
fail and screw up the colours on the DM.
I would dearly like to get this to work. 256 colours these days is just about 
unusable. Two X servers work (:1 8bit & :0 24bit) but it's not something that 
you can give to anyone.

I tried the Matrox Overlay option which has 8 + 24bit. Trouble is the root 
window is 8 bit so the window manager (gnome/kde) and apps think it has 8 bit 
only. I haven't been able to get it to have a 24bit root window with 8 bit 
overlay.


Regards
Darryl Bond


stan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:39:44PM +0000, Warren Brown wrote:
> 
>>I am confused still.  Is the X server starting ?
>>
>>wrb
>>
> 
> 
> OK, I must not be making myself clear here. Lets' star from the beginning.
> 
> The object of this exercise is to allow running Foxboro's display manager X
> _client_ on an existing FreeBSD (think Linux, but more stable) machine.
> This machine has XFree86 (version 4.2) running using Gnome as the desktop
> with the X server capable of displaying 24 bit color.
> 
> It is a documented bug that Foxboro's display manager will core dump, if
> the X server replies to it's query with more that 8 bit (256 colors) color.
> 
> So, I have gotten the FreeBSD box to run 2 copies of the X server, the
> original one (brown:0 listening on port 6000), and a 2nd one (brown:1
> listening on port 6001). I am then able to log into a Foxboro box, set the
> DISPLAY environment to wither brown:0, or brown:1 run (for instance xterm)
> and have this client display on the appropriate server on brown.
> 
> We start the remote display managers by logining in as user ia, which in turn
> executes that users profile, which starts up :
> 
> /usr/fox/wp/bin/jettool -Wi -f 
> /usr/fox/wp/bin/blink_task -sig -r -hb 5
> /opt/fox/wp/bin/default_dm
> 
> after of course setting DISPLAY to the appropriate value.
> 
> I have been able to use this setup to run remote display manager on Sum &
> HP workstations, which have 8 bit color.
> 
> Unfortunately, for some reason this does not work on the FreeBSD machine,
> using the 8 bit color X server.
> 
> Is that clearer.




 
 
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