newcomer with query and request

[Jonathan Morton]

>The next step is to keep it working when I take away the server
>machine's monitor. I tried taking away the monitor and restarting, with
>VNCserver set to run at startup. It did.
>
>However, when I connect to the server using the VNCviewer, I get a very
>small (icon-size) image of the screen in the main viewer window.
>
>I think this is because the server's graphics card automatically sets
>itself to run at whatever resolution and depth is demanded of it by the
>monitor plugged in to it. Am I right? If so, is there any way of forcing
>it to 'think' at a certain resolution, so VNC will work?

Get hold of a Mac -> VGA converter and set that to the required resolution.
It 'emulates' a Mac monitor and passes the video signals to any attached
monitor.


>REQUEST
>+++++++++++++++
>
>Please may someone tell me where to find a copy of the beta-2 release of
>VNC server and viewer? I downloaded beta-3 but seemed to run in to the
>same kind of trouble as everyone else.

I'll send you a personal mail with beta-2.1 attached.  It's identical to
beta-2 with a few bugfixes.

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org   (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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