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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!mark From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Building X server on HP 3xx running 4.4BSD Date: 1 Jul 1993 23:57:42 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <20vtlm$1r9@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz> References: <20ujk1$6v4@lorne.stir.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bats.comp.vuw.ac.nz Keywords: Xhp.o hp300 4.4BSD In article <20ujk1$6v4@lorne.stir.ac.uk> bmb1@stirling.ac.uk (Mr Brian M Bullen) writes: >We have a collection of 8Meg 340 diskless which can just about >run hpux plus the Xserver - but not much more. However they might >run better with a slimmed down OS and X server (overhead of >restarting the X server is important in heavy use student environment - >also, it is very nice to have XIDLE extension ) >Is anyone running X on hp 300 with BSD ? how ? Yes. The X11R5 server that is in the contributed software for 4.4bsd runs on the topcat, catseye and hyperion displays. All our diskless 340's are setup as you describe with a minimal kernel and "init" being a shell script that fires up the X server. This configuration performs quite reasonably. cheers mark