Re: xserver ports?

2000-09-01 Thread Franklin Hays
> At that point, you're schlepping lots of large graphics, right? yep, with large amounts of data. > Are you able to modify the source to Ultrascan? sure, though I was hoping to find a simpler solution. :-) this may be pretty simple for somebody with your experience, as for me, I don't dream

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-31 Thread Seth Cohn
> >Here's another way-off-the-wall idea: bootable CDs. (-: Hey, I resemble that remark :) Seth btw, VNC uses zlib compression...

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-31 Thread Bob Miller
Franklin Hays wrote: > > Which X toolkit(s) does it use? > > gtk+-1.2.8, hope this is what you are referring to. I think (not sure) that gtk+ is a heavy user of imlib. > very slow to initialize then performance is fairly good until opening up > UltraScan, then it slows to a crawl again. A

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-31 Thread Seth Cohn
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Franklin Hays wrote: > > It sounds like Franklin has a different problem than what VNC solves. > > He wants to run a program on Linux that will display its results on a > > DOSbox (I think). VNC will put a whole X desktop on his DOSbox, which > > is different. There are VNC

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Franklin Hays
Hello Bob, > May I ask: certainly, just hope I can answer. :-) > > What kind of app is it? A realtime video editor has different > performance requirements than a forms-based DBMS front > end. (-: computational program called Ultrascan used to do mathmatical analysis of a

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Miller
Franklin Hays wrote: > I was able to get it setup today after playing with the port settings on > the firewall, though it was noticeably slow. May I ask: What kind of app is it? A realtime video editor has different performance requirements than a forms-based DBMS front

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Franklin Hays
> > disadvantages > > different from X, advantage include stateless > > (disconnect/reconnect), > > simple ports (5900+), full desktop, and free ($$ and GPL). > > It sounds like Franklin has a different problem than what VNC solves. > He wants to run a program on Linux that will display its re

Misattribution (was: xserver ports?)

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Miller
I mistakenly attributed: > Bob Crandell wrote: > > > You look at VNC as another option? But Seth said that, not Bob C. Sorry... -- K [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Crandell wrote: > You look at VNC as another option? VNC has benefits and > disadvantages > different from X, advantage include stateless > (disconnect/reconnect), > simple ports (5900+), full desktop, and free ($$ and GPL). It sounds like Franklin has a different problem than what VNC so

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Miller
Franklin Hays wrote: > trying to secure a slackware 7.1/2.2.16 box that needs to act as an > x-server. anyone know what ports need to be open to allow > this? currently opened 5000-6000, 496XX (from netstat) and 177 but still > blocking the server somehow (shows up on other machines when firewa

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Franklin Hays
ok, thanks all for the input. will take a look at VNC. I was able to get it working today by opening up a few other ports (though not sure which one(s) in particular did the trick) and it IS slow. appreciate the input, /frank

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Crandell
I had to open 512 through our firewall when I was testing X at home. The result of that test is: 1) It's really cool. 2) It's really, really slow. 3) Don't waste your time. 4) VNC is so much faster. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/30/2000 10:29:16 AM >>> At 08:46 AM 08/30/2000 -0700, you wrote: >tr

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread James Kaplan
Speaking of portsdoes anyone know how to get rplay working? In my case, the server has NO soundcard. I'd like to have it's sounds available to x-clients. Possibilities? jk -- - James S. Kaplan KG7FU Eugene Oregon USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rio.com/~kg7fu

Re: xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Seth Cohn
At 08:46 AM 08/30/2000 -0700, you wrote: >trying to secure a slackware 7.1/2.2.16 box that needs to act as an >x-server. anyone know what ports need to be open to allow >this? currently opened 5000-6000, 496XX (from netstat) and 177 but still >blocking the server somehow (shows up on other mach

xserver ports?

2000-08-30 Thread Franklin Hays
trying to secure a slackware 7.1/2.2.16 box that needs to act as an x-server. anyone know what ports need to be open to allow this? currently opened 5000-6000, 496XX (from netstat) and 177 but still blocking the server somehow (shows up on other machines when firewall is down and not when it is