My question was:
> jenny_sander_at_hotmail.com said:
> The consensus is 4.0D will not run on the DS20 machine. The DS20 uses
> the EV6 chip which is not supported below v.40e.
> What about the EV67 ? We're up to receive a DS20E, and we'd like to
> use xdm, so as I understood we have to run 4.0<what?> instead of 5.0
Thanks to:
Neil Clifford <clifford_at_astro.ox.ac.uk>
"Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
Joe Fletcher <joe_at_meng.ucl.ac.uk>
"Frank Wortner" <frank_at_bondnet.com>
"John J. Francini" <francini_at_progress.com>
>From Dr. Tom Blinn's message:
> EV67 in a DS20E *should* work with V4.0F with latest patches, or with
> V4.0G (due out real soon now). V4.0G is the last planned release in
> the V4.0x stream. Yes, if you want to use Xdm you need a V4.0x
> release, and what you should obtain and install (as soon as it's
> available in France) is V4.0G.
and from Neil Clifford:
> I have 4.0F plus the new hardware delivery 2 and 4.0F patchkit 3
> installed on a DS20E which I _think_ is the earliest to support that
> hardware - though I could be wrong - there may be some possible
> installation with 4.0D+assorted patches. We don't run xdm on it (nor
> cde) but we could from 4.0F so I guess this might be of use?
Opinions seem to differ about xdm support. From Frank Wortner:
> 5.0 supports xdm. I just looked at one of the 5.0 boxes here, and it
> *definitely* is available. 5.0's sysman system management tool even
> has screen that allows you to convert between XDM and CDE display
> managers.
Anyway, I think we will run 4.0F with latest patchkits.
Thanks a lot,
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