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From: shores@unx.sas.com (Veronica Shores)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Configuring X on an Apollo
Message-ID: <1990Aug18.172136.1559@unx.sas.com>
Date: 18 Aug 90 17:21:36 GMT
References: <1990Aug6.223445.32172@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <1990Aug7.142135.19679@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <4c2dce8f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
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In article <4c2dce8f.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> valante_g@APOLLO.COM writes:
>
>
>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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>  Apollo / Hewlett-Packard         |    
>  North American Customer Support  |
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How do you turn DM off???
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Veronica L. Shores    QA Unix Analyst                (shores@unx.sas.com)
SAS Institute, Inc.   SAS Campus Dr, Cary NC 27513   (919) 677-8000 X6990