Re: [coLinux-users] Question: XDMCP and Ubuntu Desktop

[Marwan Al-S. <ma...@co...>]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Patrick Kennedy <pak...@gm...> wrote:
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> Howdy! I want to start by saying I'm very new to Linux and infact only started attempting to use it last week when I heard about coLinux so please go easy on me.
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> Now, over the past week I've been attempting to piece together information on how to use coLinux based on the wiki and other websites and so far I've been fairly successful, I got SLiRP and the TAP working along with XMing (I've run xterm and Firefox)  but I've hit this stumbling block trying to use the Ubuntu desktop "xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O" when I try an run an xorg server
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> I read in this post to the list (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=20060322011946.I46635%40lionking.org) that you're not supposed to run an X Server at all, so my question is how does XDMCP work and can anyone explain how to set it up in a way that will let me run the Gnome desktop over my Windows' desktop (via XMing or cygwin/X) or is it only possible to run specific applications like "xterm&" or "firefox&" through XMing?
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> My configuration:
> -- Windows XP Pro - SP2
> -- coLinux v0.7.2
> -- Ubuntu-7.10.ext3.2gb.fs
> -- Worked mainly from http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=security&seqNum=26 (parts 2 and 3) and http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux
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> Not sure what else to add, I can attach any logs needed.
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> In anycase, thank you for any help you can give this newbie!
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Hi Patrick,
   The good news is that you've done all the hard
work already of getting coLinux, Ubuntu, and Xming working. You can
use the same way that you used to run xterm, firefox to run the
desktop. Just run gnome-session. This will start the full gnome
desktop.

Marwan