Thanks! As usual, I found this very answer myself by searching this list's archives (only subscribed a while ago). I've downloaded a precompiled version of Kdrive and I'm already pretty sure it's exactly what i'm looking for =)
I'll build new initrd's including Kdrive tomorrow and let you all know how it went. Thanks again and sorry for asking an already answered question. Damian El miÃ, 26-05-2004 a las 00:39, Dean Adamson escribiÃ: > Do a search for TinyX or Kdrive in google, it will show you some > configurations you can use to reduce the size of your X to ~1Mb footprint > and under 4Mb of memory. Although I haven't found much support with this so > good luck. > Hope this helps, let me know how you go. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Damian Gatabria > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [XFree86] Optimizing X for size and memory footprint. > > > Hello > > I'm currently involved in the development > of an in-house diskless thin client system which is based > on Linux. I have to build network-bootable images > that run an X session and then run rdesktop > to give the user a Windows environment. > > I've already succeded for the most part, > however there's some very old hardware that > isn't worth upgrading (Pentiums with 16MB of RAM) > that i'd like to be able to use. So here's my problem: > > I have already managed to make 3.5MB images > that include Xfree 3.3 and take up about 18.5 > MB of memory to run, which is ~2.5 MB more than > I can afford. (Packing executables with UPX did > wonders) I'm trying to find a way to get the X process to take > up less than the current ~5.5MB of memory. > > Providing I'm interested in making this X installation > support only one driver (svga), Is there any > way to reduce the executable size/memory footprint > by disabling drivers at compile-time? On a related note, > there's also some features i don't need (Backing store, > for example, as X will only open one fullscreen window) > that i could, in this case, live without. > > I have googled for info on building X from sources > but couldn't find anything useful beyond the usual > 'make World' .. any suggestions will be very welcome. > > Thanks. > > Damian > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
