VNC-List digest, Vol 1 #1270 - 7 msgs

[Gobbledegeek]

> That depends entirely on the BIOS.  Most newer BIOSes will let you.

> You'll have to set the BIOS up intially to ignore keyboard errors.
> There should be no problems after that though.

Good enough. See below .

> > 3. Who does the graphics computation - on a headless machine accessed
> > via a LAN?

> The machine acting as a server.

> Since you are using Xvnc it doesn't have anything to do with the video
> card at all.

> If you're running Xvnc then it _is_ the Xfree server.  This is totally
> independent of whatever graphics card is in there - you can run it at a
> resolution unsupported by the graphics card if you want.  Xvnc then acts
> just like any other X server - you can run whatever window maanager &
> apps you like - the only limitation is the extensions supported (most
> VNC implementations don't support RENDER for example) and you won't be
> able to take advantage of any hardware acceleration.

So Xvnc wont use the server  h/w graphics card at all with its
optimizations  for computing screen display like anti-aliasing,
alpha-blending and z-buffer etc? What if I run a 3d game or run
something that uses openGL on the server?  Then what about a win32 vnc
server and a linux vnc thin client with me running a DirectX
application.  Let me guess -  DirectX will call cpu SSE2/3
instructions in some cases, but what about all those calculations that
a gpu is optimized for?

> 
> That depends on your software.  It can be done with Fedora, for example,
> because you can do a VNC install.

> > 4. Can one do a remote install on these boxes without ever attaching
> > keyb/mouse & monitor?
> >
> This is dependent on the distribution you're installing.  I know SuSE
> comes with a VNC install option - I'm not sure how easy it is to get it
> to boot to that without a display/keyboard though.  You could always
> just put each disk into your current system and do a basic install, then
> move them to the headless systems.
> 

Thanks for the tip. I  think I will just install regular then
disconnect monitor/keyb first.
When my new instal/setupl gets stable I will experiment...

Thanks for ur well  informed replies. :)