Subject: Re: X :(
To: Jeff <jhergan@home.com>
From: Gregory Smith <wolfy@treellama.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/22/2000 21:09:54
--On Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:50 PM -0400 Michael Wolfson 
<mw@costello.cnf.cornell.edu> wrote:

> At 3:30 PM -0500 10/22/00, Jeff wrote:
>
> :)In spite of the fact that OF 2.01 doesn't support my Performa's
> :)Valkyrie video and I have to use a serial console (my laptop), NetBSD
> :)for power-pc is definitely the sharpest OS I've used (of all the
> :)other *nix variants).
>
> Cool!  Glad to hear it.
>
> :)But, the X documentation is way messed up, or I'm missing something.
>
> You're missing a screen and keyboard/mouse.  The X server runs on the
> machine that will be displaying the graphics.  Since your machine doesn't
> support graphics (i.e. you have to use a serial console), then you can't
> run the X server, and it wouldn't do you any good if you could because
> your machine doesn't support the screen.
>
> What you really want is a X server for your laptop so you can run X
> *clients* (such as gnome and xterms) from your macppc machine (yes, I
> know, the terminology is reversed).  There is a free X server for MacOS
> (M/IX, I think it's called), but I don't know how good it is.  I've used
> eXodus for MacOS (commercial software) and it works very well.
>
> Good luck,
>   -- MW

	VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ ) is in the package collection, 
and IMO works better than remote X hosting. Everything, including the 
client, is free.

Gregory