The GlobalHost Loadable ddx Module

The GO-Joe applet communicates through a dynamically loaded Xsun device driver. This driver appears to the Xsun server to be a standard display driver, but transmits display operations to the GO-Joe applet. This is referred to as the GlobalHost loadable ddx module.

To start the Xsun server with the GlobalHost loadable ddx module, you need to reference the device files created in /devices similar to the following:

/usr/openwin/bin/goinit /usr/dt/bin/Xsession -- 
/usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :1  -dev /dev/fbs/goglobal0 -I -inetd

When the Xsun queries this device, it loads the correct module for GO-Joe.

Note that you would never type this command at the command line. It is started by a script after the go-login program has authenticated the user through inetd or started by the go-login program itself.