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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hplntx!news From: Kevin Smathers <kevin@oberon.hpl.hp.com> Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Sender: news@hpl.hp.com (HPLabs Usenet Login) Message-ID: <315C3956.4B16@oberon.hpl.hp.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:26:14 GMT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: oberon.hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Organization: The Apex Group Lines: 26 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14092 comp.os.linux.development.system:20615 comp.os.linux.x:28472 comp.os.linux.hardware:35343 comp.os.linux.setup:48866 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:435 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2970 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2736 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16593 Mark Rosenthal wrote: > > I sometimes run my X connection over a modem, and it's slower than I'd > like. What does this have to do with whether or not to buy a Matrox > Millennium card? Someday soon, I plan on rebuilding my X server to > include the LBX (low bandwidth X) extension. Can I do this without > source code to the server? I don't think so. My understanding of LBX is somewhat different: LBX runs as a proxy X-server at a remote location which then redirects its data (now in compressed form) to an X client on your computer which expands the data and sends it on to your X server. You shouldn't need to touch your X-server in order to support LBX. > Even if I didn't have > this immediate need, you never know what extensions you might want to > add to the server in the future. There is that of course.... On the other hand, X-inside et. al. probably consider X-extensions to be part of their domain (ie: if you've purchased the server from them, you'll have to get your extensions there too.) -kls