I find it useful in limited situations to run VNC. Mostly to keep a desktop active with a variety of terminals or browsers going and possible to share with multiple users simultaneously. I run it on a headless machine (which does have a video card, though it's never been attached to a monitor.) I believe that it is perfectly possible to run the setup with no vid card at all, but it's been a long time since I looked into things. 'virtual frame buffers' or some such as I recall.
If it would do you any good, here is the critical file for my TightVNC setup: --------- [usr@host: ~/.vnc] >cat xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & fvwm2 & --------- And I start it something like so (from my notes): [usr@host: ~] >vncserver -rfbport 1501 -alwaysshared -name load_gen_vnc I actually access the desktop through an ssh tunnel and if you are not going to, I guess you need to make sure that nothing would block the chosen port. Even though I have currently a fairly beefy machine upon which I run things, I tried to keep things light-weight by limiting the desktop size and using a relatively light windows manager (fvwm2.) How it would do on a net5501 I do not know because I've not tried. I have built X on that platform and forward X11 in some rare cases (namely wireshark since I am to lazy to figure out the non-X variant...this works but only barely.) I'm running FreeBSD and built everything from ports. I think I recall having troubles unless I installed 'xauth', and the problem/solution was not very obvious. FWIW, here are the things which start with 'x' which I have installed: ---------- ... tightvnc-1.3.10_3 Enhanced version of VNC ... xauth-1.0.6 X authority file utility xbitmaps-1.1.1 X.Org bitmaps data xcb-proto-1.6 The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) protocol xcb-util-0.3.6_1 A module with libxcb/libX11 extension/replacement libraries xclock-1.0.4_1 Analog and digital clock for X xcmiscproto-1.2.1 XCMisc extension headers xextproto-7.2.0 XExt extension headers xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 XFree86-Bigfont extension headers xineramaproto-1.2.1 Xinerama extension headers xorg-cf-files-1.0.3 X.org cf files for use with imake builds xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.5.1 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-7.5.1 X.org fonts meta-port xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.5.1 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.5.1 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.5.1 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-7.5.1 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-fonts-type1-7.5.1 X.Org Type1 fonts xorg-macros-1.15.0 X.Org development aclocal macros xproto-7.0.22 X11 protocol headers xrdb-1.0.6_1 X server resource database utility xsetroot-1.1.0 root window parameter setting utility for X xterm-275_1 Terminal emulator for the X Window System xtrans-1.2.6 Abstract network code for X --------- HTH, - Tom On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:24 PM, <aa...@aa6qn.sytes.net> wrote: > Does anyone have a HOWTO regarding the installation of TightVNC on a 5501? > e.g What video cards - vesa, radion included within the kernel? I am > running Gentoo Linux with an internal disk, xorg-server, Gnome X11 but can > not get the display to open. > > I am not using any video adapter and was told to use the vesa drivers. Do > I need to find a mini-pci adapter to make this work? > > Thank you in advance, JohnF > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
