Accessing a console X session from a remote system later?

[Joey Teel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson at allantgroup.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:31 PM
> To: Joey Teel
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Accessing a console X session from a remote system later?
> 
> 
> There's an XFree86-4 module you can load that provides vnc access to a
> physical session; take a look at http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net
> Unfortunately, it requires a custom video driver also, so you're stuck
> with support for the video cards they provide binaries for.
> 
> If you don't want to replace your driver binaries or want to 
> control an
> X server that's already running, take a look at the x0rfbserver
> package.  It is slower (it basically takes X screenshots and sends
> changes over the VNC protocol, sort of like VNC for windows does), but
> is less invasive to the system.  You'll have to build the ports
> yourself from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33749 and
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=33750 ; I have ports for a
> newer version that I should probably submit (hopefully my PRs won't be
> unnecessarily closed like those two were).
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
> 

Thank you, I'll try both of those as soon as I get home tonight and let
you know how it works out :)