Re: terminal servers

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 12 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes: 
> > A bunch of this stuff also applies to magic boxes sometimes called
> > sunrays, which are somewhat "thinner" clients - the X server runs on the
> > server and the client gets "digested" information. So getting it fixed is
> > a big deal for "us" aswell.
> 
> Cool. More people that care = more chance of fixing it.
> 
> So, we need hackers to set up their desktops to work this way, that's
> the only way it's going to get debugged...
> 

Somebody make Glynn and Mark and Stephen, etc. exclusively use sunrays 8-)

> > Did they try sound support? 8-)
> 
> They said it would be nice but they could live without it for now.
> 

The trick apparently being that at least in 1.4 you are limited to 1
sound server per machine and bizzare things can happen if multiple people
have sounds enable... 8-)

> Erik and Owen and Christian drew some huge diagram of how our
> multimedia support should work, I won't try to explain their
> conclusions. ;-)
> 

Hopefully we can see it soon

> Havoc
> 

	Sander

"I don't think there is intelligent life within our solar system"
	-- Brian Behlendorf

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