RE: framebuffer and VNC

2002-07-19 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Preetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hi All: > I have a query on how VNC picks up the region information to > sent to the VNC > client. How does it know of which region is modified. Does it > read from the > Framebuffer of the Display or does it use some

RE: Xserver, Framebuffer and VNC Client

2002-07-19 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Preetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > From the documentation i infer that VNC uses an XFree86 based Xserver > which captures the screen of a particular display and sends it to the > client. Not for the Xvnc binary: that uses XFree86 code to be a Xserver. Fo

Re: Xserver, Framebuffer and VNC Client

2002-07-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
Preetham, Have you seen xf4vnc which is an implementation of VNC on top of XFree86 v4.x and allows the original Xvnc implementation to run, but also has a loadable module called vnc.so that allows you to remote control the video's display now too. http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net Alan. On Fri, Ju

Xserver, Framebuffer and VNC Client

2002-07-19 Thread Preetham
Hi All, From the documentation i infer that VNC uses an XFree86 based Xserver which captures the screen of a particular display and sends it to the client. I have a few doubts bout its implementation. 1. Is there one instance of an Xserver running, or is a new instance loaded for each new displa

framebuffer and VNC

2002-07-18 Thread Preetham
Hi All: I have a query on how VNC picks up the region information to sent to the VNC client. How does it know of which region is modified. Does it read from the Framebuffer of the Display or does it use some layer in between to capture rendering data. Appreciate the help. Thanks, Preetham. __