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From: valante_g@apollo.HP.COM (Glen E Valante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Configuring X on an Apollo
Message-ID: <4c2dce8f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Aug 90 18:15:00 GMT
References: <1749@tuvie> <1990Aug6.223445.32172@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1990Aug7.142135.19679@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
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Hello,

In article <1749@tuvie>, mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
> In article <1990Aug7.142135.19679@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>,
jwb@cepmax.ncsu.EDU (John W. Baugh Jr.) writes:
> >   - an /etc/daemons/xdm file and the /etc/rc command:
> >       (/etc/xdm) &
> >     which gives us the X environment, but not Interleaf
> Does this work OK for your workstation. ``Using the X Window System on 
> Apollo Workstations'' tells the user not to use this option. On the
other hand,

The doc mentions that it is supported under a future product.  That being 
HpVue 1.0 -- See local sales for the product.

Under *base* 10.2, you can use xdm, but...... You have to modify /etc/ttys to
turn the dm off. At a later release of the dm, the one released with HpVue/psk5
this does not have to be done.  Under HpVue, the use of xdm is supported.

> we were told by someone at our local HP/Apollo office that it was OK
to use...
> It was for some time, but then the screen changed from the X window 
> backgound to DM, back and forth, every 2 or 3 seconds. Only reboot
would help.

Dm was not turned off.

thanks,

--glen

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