Xserve as a display server

Hi,
I will soon need to set up an information display panel of 10 plasma screens.
Im interested in using xserves for their small form factor. They have two expansion slots, and now come with a built in video card.
Would it be possible to install additional video cards and support multiple monitors, or video out channels?
Advice appreciated, thanks.

10 times the same image or 10 different images?
A single Mac can do 8 displays and that would be a Mac Pro. Graphically it is your better choice anyway. As mentioned, the Xserve form factor is designed for rack mounts and not small by any means.
If you need to display 10 times the same image, you'll be much better off connecting a distribution amplifier that takes 1 image and simply displays that on 10 screens.
Things to consider:
1. Make sure that your displays have the proper inputs. Some models do better with VGA then DVI/HDMI when it comes to positioning/overscan. Since Mac video cards do digital and analog OUT, try a single display setting first.
2. Make sure your images are constantly updating if you are using plasmas. They are prone to screen burn in (depending on contrast and image in as little as a day). If still selecting displays, get LCD's instead; they can't burn in.
3. There are specialty video cards/extenders for doing this kind of multi panel display. Needed if you want to get fancy of what is shown. Very expensive though.
4. Distribution amplifiers will be your cheapest option. Look at Gefen or check out monoprice.com. You could get 2* 8 port DVI or VGA amps and drive them with a single video card and use up to 16 displays (or 2 times 8 displays).
Hope this helps...

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Using Mac as X11 display server for app running on Linux

Hello all,
I am in the midst of learning Arabic, and am trying to get to the point of becoming comfortable with computing on Arabic screens with Arabic menus, etc. The Mac doesn't support this for Arabic, although it does for many other languages. (Neither does the Windows box, apparently, on a user by user basis. It looks like I would have to install Arabic Windows to get Arabic GUI. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.)
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I found that I could even get my whole desktop up, albeit with some amusing things happening with sound across the room, using startkde. Is there a better way to get this effect?
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<h3><font color=red>Test-2</font></h3>
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<font color=maroon>
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</font>
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<<<< Enlightenment Error >>>>
Your display server does not support XComposite, or Ecore-X was built without XComposite support. Note that for composite support you will also need XRender and XFixes support in X11 and Ecore.
<<<< Enlightenment Error >>>>
Enlightenment cannot setup compositing.
E18: Begin Shutdown Procedure!
^[[31mERR<^[[0mefreet_cache^[[31m>^[[0mlib/efreet/efreet_cache.c:1108^[[0m org.enlightenment.DBus.Canceled Canceled by user.
E - PID=849, valgrind=0
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Do I need to build every package from scratch just to get this to work? Or is there an easier way? I tried googling the problem, but only four sites came up with three being .c code. The other didn't offer any real help.
Thank you in advance for any help.

Scimmia wrote:hmm, 1.9.3-1 was just released, but 1.9.2-1 should work just fine. Anything custom in your X setup? How about trying a clean configuration (rename ~/.e and let E recreate it)?
There's nothing custom in my X setup. I've tried deleting the .e folder but still no luck. I'm not sure if it helps, but here's my xorg.conf file. I'm also using the closed source NVIDIA drivers if that matters.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 1680 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
Option "Xinerama" "1"
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Section "Files"
EndSection
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Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
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Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
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Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VE258"
HorizSync 24.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW224"
HorizSync 30.0 - 85.0
VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 550 Ti"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device1"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce GTX 550 Ti"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0; DFP-0: 1440x900 +0+0; DFP-0: 1440x90$
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Device1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "Stereo" "0"
Option "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

XServer - Cannot open display :0

Hi friends,
I am using Solaris 10 on x86. From the day I installed, things were fine. But recently, I changed my monitor. After that, when I boot my solaris, sometimes I get the gui login screen, but at other times, I get an error message saying, "Cannot open X Server on display :0" .
What settings (change in settings) should I do to overcome this issue? Please suggest.
Thanks,
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I'm not sure if I understand correctly what you are doing, but you need to start a xserver (so using startx, a display manager, etc) before you can start any gui applications.
Last edited by pressh (2008-03-20 13:25:07)

Xserve showing as PC server in sidebar and not a mac server

Hi
I currently have an Xserve running 10.5.8 server in a classroom environment, all the macs bind to the server and can connect to its share points using home directories. The server however is appearing in the sidebar on all macs as a pc server and in a folder called servers all the macs are running 10.5.8 and 10.6.2. This is causing problems with some share points and screen sharing. Can anyone help me with this I have tried restarting the afp and smb, resetting the dns service, restarting the server and repairing disk permissions.
Thanks

Hi sorry, no its 10.5.8 Server, Most macs on the network running 10.5 and some 10.6
I had been working fine until yesterday, pre-updates
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Repaired permissions. restarted, propagated permissions to all folders, restarted. Which actually worked for a short while, with the mounted dock shares.
But still not getting the server to display in the share sidebar. As it was previously displaying as a PC server I switched off the smb. This is when it stopped displaying the server all together although I can connect via cmd+k. I've just switched smb back on and its displaying the server as a PC server again
I've also tried rebinding the server via directory util.
I used to click the arrow and it would have the server address ready to choose. Now I have to add it manually.
Oddly enough, when I noticed the problem, most of the network worked fine apart from 3. 2 of which had lost the bind and wouldn't logon and 1 had lost the users preferences. The 2 that were rebind started fine with mounted shared dock but the 1 that lost the preferences lost the mounts.
Now the mounts appears as a question mark and when click is prompt for the admin password.
I'm guessing that I need to repair permissions and propagate the folder permissions too again.
Still lost without being able to get to the server without finding a monitor though....
Hope that helps a bit more.
Thanks again

Two Xserves running 10.5 Server and setting up DNS...

Hello.
I have two Xserves (a G5 and a new Intel), both with fresh installs of 10.5 Server on them.
Xserve #1 not going to be hosting any external services (FTP, web, email) and only housing internal, mission critical & confidential data (the server is set up with a mirror RAID on the OS drive as well as mirror RAID on the storage drives + nightly tape backups for offsite storage). Right now there are no plans for enabling iCal on this server as we're trying to keep the server as basic as possible (as we can afford zero downtime on this server), but if the initial setup of 10.5 requires configuration at first run to allow this type of thing, I'd like to deal with it now so as to keep my options open (as I know iCal on 10.5 requires Open Directory enabled).
Xserve #2 is going to host FTP (for external clients) and internal file sharing for the design/production department (basically, for transferring files back and fourth between departments, so no data via this share will be "critical" as it's only temporarily on the server and will always exist in other locations). Even though this server will not host "critical" data, it will share the same backup/RAID scheme as Xserve #1.
So, I'm curious as to how I set up DNS in this situation (so we can associate a domain name to our static IP address). We already have our main domain setup via 3rd-party hosting service (for web & email as we do not want to bring these services in-house), but we're purchasing a second domain that will be associated with company (via a static IP, so we can give a domain name instead of IP address for people needing to connect to the FTP server, make it easier for employees to remember the address for remote connections, etc.).
Because Xserve #2 is going to be hosting FTP, would it make sense to setup DNS on this server and not set it up on Xserve #1? Also, and this could just be me being paranoid, but because Xserve #1 will be housing "critical & confidential" data I want to eliminate as much contact with the outside world as possible with this server, so this is another reason I feel Xserve #2 should have DNS running instead.
Oh, and not sure if this makes any difference, but between the WAN and the LAN is a SonicWALL firewall and currently it deal with port forwarding, etc. depending on what services are being requested from the WAN (ie. remote machine connections, FileMaker remote connections, etc.).
Any advice would be appreciated!
Regards,
Kristin.

There's a couple of things in your post I don't understand:
the server is set up with a mirror RAID on the OS drive as well as mirror RAID on the storage drives
How are you doing this? Both XServes support only three internal drives and two mirrors require 4 drives. Where does the fourth drive come into play?
I'm curious as to how I set up DNS in this situation
There are numerous ways of doing this, but with a single static IP address your best bet is to leave DNS where it is - managed by your hosting provider. Just add a record in the domain zone (e.g. ftp.yourdomain.com) that has the IP address of the public interface your SonicWall firewall. You don't need a separate domain for this. You also don't need to setup internal DNS for this (although you may need internal DNS if you're running Open Directory.
Because Xserve #2 is going to be hosting FTP, would it make sense to setup DNS on this server and not set it up on Xserve #1?
Assuming you're referring to setting up a DNS server - use them BOTH. Make one of the servers the primary server (I'd pick the internal-only server for this) and set the other server to be a slave (so it copies all the zone data from the primary server). That way you have a replica of the data to provide additional resilience.

Coping files from G5 to Xserve G4 crashes the server

The past week when I copy a large amount of file from my G5 to the Xserve (w/raid) { I am copying files from one raid partition to a new raid partition}. The server will start locking up and everyone that is connected will start getting the beach ball. The only thing I can do is restart the server and raid. I can copy from the server the sames files from one raid to the other with out any problems but not from a client.
Has anyone seen this happen to them.

You should post this in one of the appropriate forums here.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=107
The is the iPod nano forum. : )

How to get Outlook 2013 to display server response messages

I'm testing the AV scanner on my email server. The test is to send the eicar test virus and see if the server catches it. I can see in my server logs that the messages has been rejected "as containing the eicar test virus," but Outlook
2013 is just telling me that the recipient address is bad. Outlook is not displaying the actual bounce message. It is much like the "Friendly Internet Explorer error messages." They aren't always right as they look at the response
code and not the actual message.
Google has failed me on this one.
I have Outlook 2007 and it does actually give me the message:
550 5.7.1 Your email was rejected. It scanned positive for Eicar-Test-Signature.
But 2013 says:
The recipient has been deleted or has no e-mail address.
I think I had to change the setting somewhere in 2007, but I cannot find it. Google keeps finding other messages. Any clue how to fix?
Thanks

Hi,
I notice that you have not configured Load Balance for the CASes, I want to know whether all Outlook Clients in both 2 locations connect to Exchange 2013 server via CAS-1.
If all clients connect to Exchange 2013 server via CAS-1, please check whether the
AutodiscoverServiceInternalUri Parameter set to the CAS-1 URL. Please run following command to check:
Set-ClientAccessServer
-identity <servername> | fl
I suggest configure Load Balance for the CASes.
Thanks
Mavis
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

Display Server Side Include at top of scrollable Div

Hello,
In this topic, I will be referring to the following containers on my page:
DIV A: Contains the content of the page; this div has overflow set to scroll.
DIV B: Contains the links
DIV A contains 3 different server side includes, each with a different ID. Using the Show/Hide Element, I have set it so that when a link in Div B is clicked, the appropriate server side include is displayed in DIV A, and the other two server side includes are set to hide.
The only problem is that when their appropriate links are clicked, SSI 2 and SSI 3 do not appear at the top of DIV A, but at the position they would be if all SSIs were set to show, so the user has to scroll to see SSI and SS 2.
Do you folks know of any way to have the SSI display at the top of DIV A?
It occurred to me that instead of using Show/Hide behavior, I may need to somehow include an SSI only when a DIV B link is clicked, and when a different DIV B link is clicked, that SSI is stripped form the page and the appropriate SSI is included.Is that even possible?
Does this make sense to all of you?
Thanks,
Mike

Without seeing your code, it could be how you are positioning these elements on your page. If you plan on showing/hiding layers you will need to position these layers to show in the same spot every time by setting the position of DIV A to relative and the position of the 3 layers inside to absolute with a top and left value set to 0.

Displaying server-side include in DW8

Sorry if this has been asked before? I did search and
couldn't find it (this site is painfully slow and searching is
worse)
I am trying to figure out how to make DW8 show my server-side
include files in the design view. My site uses SSI for all headers
and footers, so every page has at least 2 SSI's. They show up as
the SSI mark on the page, but not the code or graphical
representation of what is in the SSI. I need to have that code
snipet show up in my design view. The only way I have been able to
figure out how to do it, is to reinsert the SSI again from the
menu, and then delete it. Doing it that way, the original ssi that
is listed on the page will display graphicly in the design view.
I do have the option in the preferences - Invisible Elements
- Server-Side includes: and the check box is checked / enabled.
If I could, while I'm here, one other question. I have DW
code rewriting turned on, and it shows me each time I open a file,
what corrections it has made. But if I save the file, and then open
it again, it shows me the exact same corrections being done again.
Is there a trick to make DW8 save the corrections it automatically
makes to the files?
many thanks in advance.

> I know that there were major changes between 4 and 8.
One of which was tightening the tolerance for bad code. CS3
is very strict
about displaying proper code.
However, your fragments below look OK.
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>
quote:
Originally posted by:
bregent
> Do any of your included files include html, head or body
tags? If so,
> that's
> the problem. Having those creates invalid html which DW
will not
> render.
>
> Thats a great thought, but I just checked, and no, none
of those tags are
> in
> the files. I'll see if I can attach the code for the 2
files and see if
> that
> helps any. The header file does have my menu system
pasted into the text
> of
> the include file, but that has not caused problems
previously. FWIW, this
> worked fine in DW4 which is what I upgraded from. In
version 4, the
> headers
> and footers showed up fine in desgin view. I know that
there were major
> changes between 4 and 8.
>
> Header include file:
> ----------------------------
> <table border="0" align="center" width="750"
height="110">
> <tr>
> <td><a href="/index2.html"><img
src="/images/color_logo.gif"
> width="110"
> height="107" alt="MMDL Logo" border="0"
/></a></td>
> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a
href="/index2.html"><img
> src="/images/header4.gif" width="450" height="110"
border="0" alt="MMDL -
> The
> worlds largest steel tip dart league"
/></a></td>
> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a
href="testpage.html"></a><a
> href="
http://www.dmisports.com/darts_main.html"><img
> src="/images/dmilogo_small.gif" alt="DMI Sports"
width="110" height="77"
> border="0" longdesc="
http://www.dmisports.com"
/><br />
> 
> </a><a href="
http://www.mmdl.org/dmi_flyer.pdf">League
Board </a></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> <script language="JavaScript"
> type="text/javascript">
> var navVer = navigator.appVersion;
> if(navVer.substr(0,3) >= 4)
> if((navigator.appName=="Netscape") &&
(parseInt(navigator.appVersion)==4))
> {
> document.write('<' + 'script language="JavaScript"
type="text/javascript"
> src="
http://www.mmdl.org/dmbmenu/nsmenu.js"><\/script\>');
> } else {
> document.write('<' + 'script language="JavaScript"
type="text/javascript"
> src="
http://www.mmdl.org/dmbmenu/iemenu.js"><\/script\>');
> }</script>
> <table border="0" width="550"
> height="110">
> -------------------------------------
> footer include file
> --------------------
> <table border="0" align="center">
> <tr>
> <td width="20" valign="top"
align="center"> </td>
> <td align="center" valign="middle" width="194">
> <div align="left"><a
href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=MMDL
> Darts.*..
> ">Comments? Email us</a></div>
> </td>
> <td align="center" valign="middle"
width="128"><a
> href="
http://www.mmdl.org/dmbmenu/textmenu.html">Text
> based menu</a></td>
> <td align="center" valign="middle"
width="223">© <SUP>SM</SUP>
> 2007
> Minute Man Dart League. All rights reserved.</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> -----------------------
>
>
>
>

Xserve G5 with infiniband server

Hi,
I have recently been tasked to set up a G5 xserve server with 15 nodes.
The nodes are connected through a voltaire infiniband ISR-9024 switch. Naturally I have no documentation for any of them of them . I have been able to connect to the switch but that only sees the one node. After I turn the nodes on, they stay up for about an hour then they seem to either shutdown or go to sleep i cant tell, I have no video cards on the nodes either.
I know my question seems general but I guess what I am asking is if anyone has set a xserve using infiniband if so what configuration did you use and also if anyone knows why my nodes keep going to sleep.
thanks
Xserve G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) with 15 cluster nodes

Hi Peter
I don't know about the others but all I've used from the G5 onwards is the range of cards supplied by ATTO. It seems clear from the symptoms you describe that it just does not work and may cause a major problem to your XServe if you persist in trying to use it.
You may as well take it out and get yourself a relevant ATTO card and never mind too much about what gsx says, it has been 'wrong' before in the past.
Tony

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