Running Solaris apps on Linux

[Marco Aurelio Torino Ribeiro]

Thanks. I managed to start two X servers on boot modifying the
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file and creating another /etc/X11/XF86Config file
with the -depth 8 parameter.

Thank you for the help.

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:58, Kevin Krieser wrote:

> I forgot to include the display.
> 
> Make it X :1 -depth 8
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Marco Aurelio Torino Ribeiro
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 6:22 PM
> To: Fedora-List
> Subject: RE: Running Solaris apps on Linux
> 
> 
> I tried:
> 
> setenv DISPLAY :1
> X -depth 8
> 
> And then, I got the following message:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
>         If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>         and start again.
> 
> What did (or didn't) I do wrong?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:42, Kevin Krieser wrote:
> You probably need to change your X configuration to use a screen depth of 8
> bit color, where pseudo-colors is used.
> 
> For an individual application, you can startup a new X screen if needed.  I
> did the following:
> export DISPLAY=:1
> X -- -depth 8
> startkde
> 
> then I could change to virtual terminal 8.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Marco Aurelio Torino Ribeiro
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 1:26 PM
> To: Fedora-List
> Subject: Running Solaris apps on Linux
> 
> 
> Hi, Folks!
> 
> 
>     I know this may be a little off-topic, but I am trying to run some
> Solaris apps on a Linux workstation, and the colors are displayed
> incorrectle in some of them.
> 
>     When I run the same apps from Windows PCs (using a program called X-Win,
> to "emulate" an X-Server in Windows), I have to check an option called
> "pseudo-colors" so that the colors display correctly.
> 
>     Does anybody know where can I configure Linux to fix that? I've already
> tried to recompile the kernel and to change some options of XFree86, but
> none of these succeeded.
> 
>     If anyone has already ran into this problem and could help me, I would
> be very grateful.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Marco Aurélio Torino Ribeiro
> marco.torino at ig.com.br
> marco.torino at directnet.com.br
> 
> 
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