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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.
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Message-ID: <20vtlm$1r9@st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
References: <20ujk1$6v4@lorne.stir.ac.uk>
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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