On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Andreas Yankopolus wrote:
>
> X on a Qube (or any other headless / remote machine) is tremendously 
> useful when combined with a VNC server. Imagine a graphical, 
> interactive version of nohup. Once you start a virtual desktop, you > can

OK, I'm stuck again :)

The thing I was missing to get the /current/xsrc to compile was that it 
needs   -make build   not -make install.
I now have the usr/X11R6 directory with a bunch of stuff in it :)

So, reading the docs from <http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/NetBSD6.html#10>
I'm not sure how much still applies.  It's for NEtBSD 1.4 and earlier, 
and I'm not sure what release of X for BSD.

- it says I need to add 2 options to my kernel .conf and rebuild the 
kernel; is that still true?

-there's a lot of talk about how to config my X for my monitor, but 
none of that applies (right?) for setting up on a headless server.  
their first command says to do a startx, but that's not right, I don't 
even have a server to connect to, yet, and there's no point that I can 
see to running xstart on the Qube itself...

-the manual also says to run xdm while disabling getty for the box; I 
don't see a reason to kill getty; (?) I don't wish to only use X to 
connect... and running xdm --nodaemon seem to do nothing whatsoever (no 
error, no new processes, no ports opening up, etc).

Can someone provide a current manual and/or a workflow of what needs 
done?  I feel as if the documentation is spread out like a hot 
breakfast, and may not apply even if I piece it all together.  I've not 
even found a description of how and what to run to start the service, 
that works.  And all the linux books I have, spend all their time on 
configuring startx to match your VGA chipset (which doesn't seem useful 
on a Qube) and not related to getting the server going.

I'm HAPPY to RTFM but I've not found a useful fine manual yet.  
Pointers welcome.

Thanks,

Brian