Peter_Gaston@UM.CC.UMICH.EDU (12/19/87)
I just received a two-node copy of Timbuktu from WOS data systems in Kansas. It's a desk acc. which allows users to remotely view and control other macintoshes over AppleTalk. Initial viewing seems to indicate a very hot program. We intend to use this system in a multiple Mac computer meeting room. ... (I have no connection with WOS data systems.)
MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) (10/13/89)
demarsee@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) writes: >Timbuktu does not work on a headless IIci through the built-in video. >It still has to have a video board. This is not true. Timbuktu will operate on a machine that has no video card whatsoever. I've been Timbuktu-ing headless II's, IIx's, and IIcx's for quite some time now. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Stephan Somogyi MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com NetWorkShop Coord. or MacUser ...{apple|uunet|sun}!cup.portal.com!MacUserLabs The MacUser NetWorkShop - home of the LocalTalk backbone Any opinions expressed above are mine.
dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (10/14/89)
MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes: > [claims that Timbuktu will work on a head-less IIci] I believe that the original poster explained that the a head-less IIci using the built in video card won't allocate any screen memory for the display. I believe that Timbuktu requires this screen memory to work, so I tend to agree with the original poster, and it is my understanding that a head-less IIci can't run timbuktu, I welcome someone correcting me if this wrong, since we are about to set just a system up and weather or not we put a monitor on the IIci depends on this fact.. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | Graduating in March of 1990, with a BS in Computer Science & need a Job. | |_____________________________________________________________________________|
demarsee@ICARUS.CNS.SYR.EDU (Darryl E. Marsee) (10/14/89)
>>Timbuktu does not work on a headless IIci through the built-in video. >>It still has to have a video board. >This is not true. Timbuktu will operate on a machine that has no video >card whatsoever. I've been Timbuktu-ing headless II's, IIx's, and >IIcx's for quite some time now. Yes, I know it will work with a II, IIx, and IIcx without the video board. This is because Timbuktu recognizes that there is no video board and allocates memory for the video image using it's SoftScreen routine. The question had to do only with the IIci, since it functionally has a video board without RAM on the motherboard, and doesn't allocate the RAM for it unless it detects a physical monitor attached to the port. Whether the SoftScreen routine works under these conditions is the question. Darryl Marsee Syracuse University
moyman@AQUARIUM.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (James M Moya) (10/14/89)
--- Your mail message of: Friday, 10/13/89 --- From: gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!dorourke@apple .com (David M. O'Rourke) Subject: Re: Timbuktu (was :Increasing RAM on AppleShare Server) MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes: > [claims that Timbuktu will work on a head-less IIci] I believe that the original poster explained that the a head-less IIci using the built in video card won't allocate any screen memory for the display. I believe that Timbuktu requires this screen memory to work, so I tend to agree with the original poster, and it is my understanding that a head-less IIci can't run timbuktu, I welcome someone correcting me if this wrong, since we are about to set just a system up and weather or not we put a monitor on the IIci depends on this fact.. -- David M. O'Rourke --- end of mail message --- When timbuktu determines there is no video card, it goes into "SoftScreen" mode and reserves a portion of the II's memory as an "invisable" video monitor(the size of a Mac +'s video). It is for this reason that it work's on headless Mac II family machines, I see *no reason* why the IIci would be any different... Mike Moya Engineering Computer Network Purdue University
dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (10/14/89)
moyman@AQUARIUM.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (James M Moya) writes: >When timbuktu determines there is no video card... ahhh, but on the IIci there IS a video card, so will Timbuktu find this card and not use the softscreen mode??? Enquiring minds want/need to know, it's not that there isn't a video card, it's that the video card won't allocate screen memory when it doesn't find a monitor. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | Graduating in March of 1990, with a BS in Computer Science & need a Job. | |_____________________________________________________________________________|