[rescue] HP L-Class console (possibly OT)

[Chris Byrne]

Well what I was thinking was that an honest to god xterminal would look jsut
like X on console, and should work in roughly the same way, unless there are
specific reasons why that wouldnt work. Honestly if the customer is of that
type would they even know the difference?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Loomis, Rip
> Sent: 30 April 2002 14:11
> To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: RE: [rescue] HP L-Class console (possibly OT)
>
>
> [[SNIP]]
> > > Is there *any* friggin' way to get a graphical console
> > > on an L-class?  _I_ know that any important/useful thing
> > > can be done from a serial console--that's not the point
> > > in this case for some unique and bizarre reasons.
>
> > Is there a specific reason why an X term or X session is
> > unacceptable? Other than of course having to run X in general
> > but just a guess Id say the machine was up to it ;-)
>
> The machine is definitely up to it.  Without going into
> irrelevant details, it's very important to a particular
> customer that this system be usable with X _on_the_console_
> as in sitting down and using it without logging in remotely
> over a network.  Essentially "they" bought the wrong system
> to satisfy a particular customer, said customer having a
> standard desktop installation that brings up several windows,
> etc.
>
> They *really* should have bought a B2000 (or I guess now
> HP sells a B2100) which would have been cheaper--but what's
> done is done.  I'm just trying to figure out if what they
> want is do-able, or are they stuck with a combination of
> A.  serial console (plus the "secure web console" crap) and
> B.  Using another system as an xterm and trying to get the
> 	full-up desktop to pop up that way (the desktop is
> 	likely not going to work in the way its pointy-headed
> 	designers intended.)
>
>   --Rip
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