Foris Gabor wrote:
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> thank you anyway :)
Just thinking about this some more, I don't think that you'll be able to
run X on a PC running terminal emulation and connecting over a serial
port (I think this is what you want to do). Connecting a text only
terminal on a serial port is pretty easy to do, you just have to add a
line to /etc/inittab to run a getty on the serial port, then hook up the
pc with a null modem cable, run some terminal emulation software and
make sure the settings in your terminal emulation software match those
set up in the getty on the Linux box you're connecting to. Problem is -
I can't think of any terminal emulation software that would be able to
understand X codes. I know that there are terminals that can do this -
after all X was designed to run on a central machine and display on many
terminals (it actually works much better/faster this way then the way
it's currently often used on Linux boxen with a single user at a time -
as an aside to anybody who doesn't think X runs very well on their
machine: it wasn't designed to be run the way it often is on a Linux
box). Sorry if I'm rambling a bit here... My point is that when you hook
up a PC to your Linux box on the serial port, and run terminal emulation
software on it, then all you've got on the PC running emulation is the
capabilities of the terminal it's emulating. Generally this doesn't
include the ability to run X. eg If you've got it running VT100
emulation (pretty much the most popular), then all the PC will
understand is VT100 codes, which don't include X. If you've got
reasonable hardware (say 486 and above) you'd be better off installing
Linux on it properly, and sticking a NIC in.
