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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, James Miller wrote:
> 
> > I'll just post some notes I found on running xvesa, since Sindi seemed 
> > interested in trying to get it going.  These are just the command line 
> > arguments for starting the client:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > xvesa -mouse /dev/psaux,5 -screen 800x600x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I 
> > &>/dev/null
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Do I type the &>/dev/null at the end of the line (no wrap) or is it a 
> prompt that snuck in and should be removed?
> 
Should be all on one line.  In other words, with just a normal space 
between "-I" and "&>/dev/null" - like so:
-----------------------------------------------
800x600x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null
-----------------------------------------------
(that's only the second half of that long argument, as you can likely see)

> your command line to start X.  Do you know what -shadow and -nolisten and
> the part after that mean?

No, I don't.  I'm guessing -nolisten and tcp belong together.  Maybe for 
security reasons (xvesa runs with full root priviledges, I think, for at 
least part of its startup).  I draw a blank on -shadow though.
 
Let us know if this helps your display endeavors.

Take care, James