Guest GorGor Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 My July 2003 linuxformat mag page 9 reports on alternative to X11 called Athene. these links may help http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/enterp...x_download.html http://www.rocklytefiles.com/index.php http://www.rocklyte.com/athene/supported_graphics.html which says my S3 trio 3d/2d is supported (a 4 meg card) can you believe that? http://www.rocklyte.com/faq.html I HAVE NOT tried it merely reporting it when I couldn't easily find a reference here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Athene is actually an operating system. It can be used as video server under Linux, but is not yet compatible with X11 applications. If you're curious about the Athene OS, it's probably worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Sounds interesting. I'm going to go and read 'bout it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Sounds interesting ... I looked into using a professional Xserver for my laptop once. The chipset is just plain badly supported under XFree86... Its a real pain ... Xv actually hangs the whole system [COMPLETELY], possibly becuase the chipset uses pat of the system memory for the graphics card.... p.s. Its a Savage twister (just in case anyone has solved this annoying problem) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 First test download about 9 megs uses a script and easy to install. Initially U run it as root. As I did not want to change my boot up after x loaded I did the contol/alt/F1 to go out of x. When I ran the commands I found it was like a windowmanager, similar to speed to my ICE only faster. There is a security.txt file to show you how to run it as a normal user account. Within athene, in its own command terminal I could run some executables like gqview like this run src="root:usr/bin/gqview" type help to get the new list of commands, run is one of them. Within athene's file manager you can also double click some executables like gqview to get same result. NOW THE BAD bit for me as a newbie, is that I don't know Perl or scripting etc, any executables that you drill down to thru X11R6 give a perl error saying X server not found. Some command guru's could probalbly point these executable to athenes server. And there is a mailing usergroup. To get to your normal files thru its file manager to go to ROOT: and this drills into your normal file system. As I run a number of kde stuff, kdf, kppp, konqueror thru IceWM for me, I will not pursue this at this stage of my skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 NOW THE BAD bit for me as a newbie, is that I don't know Perl or scripting etc, any executables that you drill down to thru X11R6 give a perl error saying X server not found. Some command guru's could probalbly point these executable to athenes server. And there is a mailing usergroup. To get to your normal files thru its file manager to go to ROOT: and this drills into your normal file system./quote] Until they implement X compatibility, this will always happen. It even says on their webpage that X11 applications won't work ;-) but it seems they plan to add X compatibility.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowFoxLSU Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Looks interesting..... and I like the name Athene..... FreeX was based off of the Athena project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 Doesn't seem to be a practical alternative to X yet, but I'm sure it will get there. I've been having problems with X freezing and no way of avoiding a reset - the mouse cursour stays alive, but the rest of my system hangs. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for it either. Having an alternative to X will mean that there is something else for people having problems to try and will competitively push X to new heights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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