> -----Original Message----- > From: Susanne Oberhauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux framebuffer device exportable via some VNC server? > > > Akira Hatakeyama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:22:31AM +0200, Susanne Oberhauser wrote: > > > > > > but how can I use this to e.g. export the Linux console via vnc? > > > > Linux console without X ? > > Mainframes come without any graphics hardware, but a networking > interface. If linux is running on such machines and a fb console is > exportable via vnc, then you can access that console via vnc. But it > might be usefull for any other remote control of a linux box with a > viable network.
If I understand you correctly, you have headless servers from which you like to take-over the console to see the console messages at your desktop. If that's the point, I'd do a remote login to the machine, set the $DISPLAY to the desktop and start `xterm -C` or `xconsole` or similar. Provided you have the richts on /dev/console, you can use it as console. To get a $DISPLAY on the desktop, you can use Xvnc on the server, display the xconsole in there use vncviewer to access the display. The above works on almost every unix. If you like to see the boot messages, it involves additional hardware. One of them can be an other PC which uses the serial ports to capture the unix console. Linux machines might need to be recompiled to get the console messages out of the serial port. It's only PC bios that needs keyboard and video adapter, it's linux that defaults to it for the console. > > > > Then how about this one, announced last month. > > > ] From: Bernd Krueger-Knauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ] I'm proud to tell you that we have build a "hardware VNC > server" called > > ] Praesidio 1010. > > ] [...] > > If I understand this correctly, it makes a video signal visible via > vnc. In that case it would not meet my requirements (I dont have any > video signal available). If your hardware happens to be Compaq-server, have a look at Compaq Remote Interface Board. It works but as soon as vnc is up and running, I switch over as it is about 4 times faster (to my experience). CBee > Susanne > -- > Susanne Oberhauser penguins SuSE Linux AG > +49-911-74053-574 enjoy Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dinosaurs 90429 N|rnberg If you happen to have influence on what's on the next SuSE distro, try to include http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp . Then I don't have to do it myself... (or is it on 8?) _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
