<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE> NCD X terminal mini HOWTO: Miscellaneous</TITLE> <LINK HREF="NCD-X-Terminal-6.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="NCD-X-Terminal.html#toc7" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> Next <A HREF="NCD-X-Terminal-6.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="NCD-X-Terminal.html#toc7">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s7">7. Miscellaneous</A></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss7.1">7.1 Supported Terminals</A> </H2> <P>I have been told that this procedures in this document work (more or less) with the following terminals: <B>NCD 19r, NCD 19c, NCD19m?, NCD 15b, NCD MCX</B> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss7.2">7.2 Reference</A> </H2> <P>Unix man pages: bootpd(8), tftpd(8), bootptab(5), xdm(1x), xfs(1), fsinfo(1), xset(1), inetd(8) <P>Linux Ethernet HOWTO document, Linux Net-3 (Networking) HOWTO document <P> <P>NCDware System Administrator's Guide for UNIX Systems (print version) <P> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub/ncd/Archive/NCD-Articles/index.html">NCD Techtips Archive</A><P>Now available for download in the NCD Techtips Archive is the <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub/ncd/Archive/Documentation/NCDware/index.html">NCDware Reference Manual</A> which covers almost every X terminal configuration issue in detail. <P>The searchable <A HREF="http://www.ncd.com/support/kbsearch/kbase.html">NCD knowledge base</A> addresses some frequently asked questions as well as bug reports. <P> <P>Note that the above links are subject to change. Since the first version of this mini-HOWTO was published, the NCD web site has been extensively reorganized. <P> <H2><A NAME="ss7.3">7.3 Equipment used in the preparation of this document</A> </H2> <P>X terminal: NCD model NCD19r with 19 monochrome monitor 1280x1024 8M RAM <P>X server software: NCDware V3.2.CV 19r_s <P>Remote Host: IBM Cyrix 686 P150+ running Slackware (Linux kernel version 2.0.31) <P>Remote Host: IBM Cyrix M2 200 MMX running Red Hat 5.0 (Linux kernel version 2.0.32) <P>Network Card: 10 base T Ethernet card (ne 2000 clone) and 8 port hub <P>Font server version 2 release number 6300 <P> <H2><A NAME="ss7.4">7.4 Acknowledgments</A> </H2> <P>I would like to thank Michael de Lind van Wijngaarden, Jamal Hadi-Salim and Dwight Hodge for assistance in the preparation of this document. <H2><A NAME="ss7.5">7.5 Outstanding Issues</A> </H2> <P> <UL> <LI>Is it possible or wise to start the font server using inetd? </LI> <LI>If the remote host running the font server is powered down but later comes up again, with the font server active, the X terminal may fail to retrieve its fonts. The font path entry has to be re-entered with the console menu or xset. Why? </LI> <LI>Are the procedures for other models of X terminals roughly similar? </LI> <LI>What is the procedure to boot the X terminal using NFS (Network File System) or RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol)? </LI> <LI>The following messages appear in the X terminal Console. I am suspicious that they come from xfree86 extensions to X which are not part of the X terminal server. Can someone confirm or deny this? <PRE> %XSERVER-I-NEWCLIENT, host "localhost" connected with blank authorization %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "BIG-REQUESTS" %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XKEYBOARD" %XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XFree86-Misc" </PRE> </LI> <LI>Could Linux be ported to an X terminal? This is almost a joke question but Linux is already on some unlikely platforms. </LI> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss7.6">7.6 Feedback</A> </H2> <P>Please write to <CODE>ian</CODE> at <CODE>permedia.ca</CODE> with any comments, questions, corrections, suggestions or contributions. Many thanks to all who have written with feedback and additional information. <P> <HR> Next <A HREF="NCD-X-Terminal-6.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="NCD-X-Terminal.html#toc7">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>