On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Richard Lynch wrote:
> My laptop with a whopping 16M of RAM and 1G hard drive (with only
> 300M free now) needs XFree86.
>
> Buying more RAM to get to the MAX of 32M is possible, I guess, but sub-optimal.
>
> Alas, the most recent version of XFree86 is a "bit much" for it.
>
> What version would you consider "optimum" for such an ancient setup?
Probably XFree86 3.3.6 if it supports your hardware. And for
a window manager something like fvwm is pretty light.
>
> I'm pretty sure I had X on this thing, and I'm pretty certain the
> RH6.2 RPM didn't work, and I believe I compiled from source when it
> did finally work, oh so long ago...
>
> I had to rip out X for something else, though.
>
> This was all a long, long, long time ago, and now I need to get this
> laptop back into a state of X-ness :-)
>
> I'm also open to switching to a different distro if that's the right
> solution. They're all the same to me, really.
>
> I just need it to be able to surf to the Intranet and be a sort of
> custom "webmin" for another box.
>
>
> Or even to be an X "head" for the other box that can run a more
> recent X version, if that's easier.
>
> I've got no idea how to make one box be the X client and the other
> the server, but I know that it can be done, and that what I think of
> as client is really server and vice versa, right?
>
> Err, the screen with pretty pictures on it is "server" and the box
> doing all the back-end X work is "client" right?
The server does all the X work and has the pretty pictures.
The client is the application. You can run netscape (the client)
on a different machine and display it on your laptop. It still
takes up alot of resources on the laptop, but less than it
would have normally.
Remote display is a matter of setting the DISPLAY environment
on the client machine to point to the server machine (something like
"my.server.ip.address:0.0") and allowing the server to allow
connections from remote clients (see the man page on xhost).
Mark.
>
> Assume you're talking to a guy who knows practically nothing about
> Un*x, X, or laptops.
>
>
> Bottom Line:
> This laptop needs to be the GUI for the other box that can't have a monitor.
>
> Hey, could I just hook up the video "out" on this thing to the video
> "out" of the box and have it be the "monitor"?... Probably not, eh?
>
> Cc: me on replies would be nice. :-)
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