Gnome on Rp2430

[Travis Zimmerman]

I am new to HP-UX but have worked with Linux in the past. We have a new development box which is a HP-UX RP2430 with a 650Mhz PA-RISC Pocessor and 384M RAM running 11i. I was thinking of installing Ximian Gnome on this machine and connecting remotely through a PC using XCeed 6.2. Some of the documentation mentions installing on a "workstation" but I am unsure if this will work on this box. There is not a VGA adapter on the machine, although we do currently have CDE running well. The primary responsibility of the machine is for development and testing of Tuxedo/Jolt applications running on WebLogic. If any one has had any experience with this I would greatly appreciate any information as to the pitfalls or problems with this set up.

Thanks

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Are you looking for this,

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/

Robert-Jan.

[Travis Zimmerman]

I had read this page, but was still not 100% sure that it would work with my particular machine( being a rack mount and not a workstation ). The last thing I really want to do is to have the machine reloaded because of some issues when installing a window manager.

Thanks for the reply.

[Rick Beldin]

GNOME should work on this box but you should be aware that gdm (the login manager) does not enable XDMCP by default. For your PC user's to get a full session, you will need to edit the file /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf and change the value:

[xdmcp]
Enable=false

The other main point that you should understand is that GNOME for HP-UX is offered without any support. It is a free product. This version will probably be the last update.

[T. M. Louah]

Pls refer to the following URL for workstation Graphix support: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Product.jsp?prodTypeId=12454&prodCatId=296719

Also check GNOME FAQz:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/support.html#faq
http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/support.html#faq-a7

Cheers,
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[Simon Galton]

Re: Rick's comments -- be sure to change the xdmcp option in /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf to "true":

[xdmcp]
Enable=true

It works like a charm for me off an old D-class box with no onboard graphics.