Well, I did say that I may be way off the mark.....
:-)
Anyway....., I was just thinking of seeing how it
handled mapping an X-screen without hardware to do the
dirty work (we'd have to emulate that somehow anyway).
--- Ramon van Handel wrote:
> Nooo... VNC is *DEAD* slow. VNC supports *no*
> hardware accelleration
> (certainly not 3D!!!) Moreover, you need a
> fiberglass connection if
> you want to run VNC even at the speed of a
> non-accelerated VGA ---
> my experiences with VNC are very bad,
> performancewise. This doesn't
> mean that VNC support isn't useful (to the
> contrary!), but it's
> absolutely unsuitable for more-than-very-light
> graphics work.
> Even the makers of VNC don't claim that VNC is good
> for heavy
> graphics.
>
> Try what ? Support full-screen ? Of course we
> should ---
> Working in full-screen mode is what people will
> usually be doing
> anyway (or so I guess), so might as well make it
> fast !
>
> Ramon
I kind of meant a raw mode.... like the ncurses stuff
you mentioned earlier..... so in other words you
already seem to have started to handle this one.
Sorry about getting back to things so late.
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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