Re: [suse-sparc] Use SparcStation 10 as X-Term?

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 01:13:28 PDT

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    Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:13:28 +0200
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010501101328.A10847@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Use SparcStation 10 as X-Term?

    On Tue, May 01, Witvliet, Hans wrote:

    > 2) In contrast to intel machines, you can have only ONE instance of "X"
    > running on your machine.
    > (again there is nothing YOU can do about, it's something for the maintainer
    > of Xsun....)

    SuSE Linux 7.1 uses XFree86 4.0.2, not Xsun, for cgsix. So more then
    one instance of "X" should work.

    > 4) Bandwith compression with "LBX" seems to be unsupported...
    > (alas, ssh is not a good alternative)

    LBX is not big-endian clean. I don't know the current status, but I
    think it is "unsupported" and the XFree86 team plans to remove it.

     Thorsten 

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