bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Gribble) (06/20/91)
My company installed a Zeos 486 box to run Interactive SysV. Since the Interactive X product is priced at ~$800, we opted not to purchase it. If one were to want to set up a do-it-yourself X on a 486 unix box, what's needed and what's available free, by FTP or otherwise? We would like to get X up and are willing to do some reasonably serious programming. Oh- we are using a Speedstar SVGA card. Please tell me I don't have to try to get *another* thousand bucks to get X running... Any help is appreciated. Bill Gribble bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu
src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (06/21/91)
bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Gribble) writes: >My company installed a Zeos 486 box to run Interactive SysV. Since the > Interactive X product is priced at ~$800, we opted not to purchase it. >If one were to want to set up a do-it-yourself X on a 486 unix box, what's > needed and what's available free, by FTP or otherwise? We would like to > get X up and are willing to do some reasonably serious programming. Oh- > we are using a Speedstar SVGA card. i'd recommend to get X11 release 4 on tape since you probably don't want to get ~60MB per ftp...btw: make sure to get it at patchlevel 18. then you should buy a ET4000 VGA card (if the following doesn't support that speedstar thing) and get X386-1.1b from a ftp server (only 800KB). you'll get 1024x768 with 256 colors and quite good performance (and circular windows). >Please tell me I don't have to try to get *another* thousand bucks > to get X running... only if you don't have the diskspace to compile a monster like X :-) -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 [voice!] public UNIX source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home