Hi... Uhhh....you can run another X server on your machine in 8 bpp if you want. It'll use the next available tty (i.e. if :0 is on tty7 then :1 (the second server) will run on tty8). You should be able to switch between them using CTRL-ALT-<tty>.
You can also just start up the second X server by itself (run `X', or your X server name directly if you want to use another video card), and run a window manager on the Solaris machine which would presumably let you run terminal emulators and X clients on it. (all this can be done in xdm, but I'm not going to go into that unless you actually ask me to :) Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:05:58 -0700 > From: Stuart Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: 2 Xsessions?, 2 graphics cards? > Resent-Date: 20 Jul 1998 23:06:01 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > Hi, > > I am a happy debian user (since 0.93R6) and I am wondering if > I can do something a bit unusual. I suffer from having 2 computers > in my office, one is a debian PC, the other a sun workstation. > I would really like to cut that down to just the PC by using a > remote sun computer. > > Is there some way to run more than one X session on my debian PC? > > Ideally I would do something like run an 8-bit depth xdm session > that logged me into a remote sun computer and a second X session > that is 16-bit depth that is my local session. If it requires a > second video card it is no problem. I would then be able to switch > between the two sessions via ALT-F7, ALT-F8 or something. > > Is this pie-in-the-sky or is there some way to do something close > to this. > > Stuart > > PS. I realize I could just run remote X clients on my local display > but I need to run the Sun solaris applications (saoimage, ximtool, idl) > etc in 8-bit mode. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null