Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?
stan <stanb@awod.com> writes:
> I've got a freshly installed Debian machien that I want to make function
> basicly as an X terminal for a Solaris box. The Solaris X resolutin is
> 1152x900 abt 8 bit color depth.
>
> How can I configure the Debian box to use this X setup?
Well, for the most part, X is X; any X setup should work fine. (I do
remote connections between different sorts of machines all the time
and it works fine, even if one is an x86 machine runnign Debian and
another is a Sun running Solaris.) You can set up XFree86 to use an
8bpp display by putting "DefaultDepth 8" into the Screen section in
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4, but you'll tend to be less happy here than if
you could get a higher bit depth at the same resolution. You can also
specify display modes here (1152x900 is semi-standard); the minimal
section that accomplished this would look like
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 8
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1152x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
> And a 2nd question, is there an easy way to determint the fontpath being
> used on the Solaris machine?
'xset q' will tell you this (among other things). You'd need to be
logged in locally there, though. Most of the X stuff on Solaris lives
in /usr/openwin and /usr/dt, you might try looking there (particularly
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts).
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