Lee Allen wrote: >> Is there any way to create a hardware version of the VNC Server program? >> You connect some little box to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor port of a >> machine, connect it to an ehternet port, assign it an IP address, and use >> the standard viewer control the PC through all stages of operation, from >> pre-POST through shutdown / restart? > >There are devices like this available. BlackBox sells one: they call it >the ServLINK, it lists for $6495.00 (no, that's not a typo). It apparently >requires thair ServSwitch KVM switch (Keyboard / Video / Mouse switch) (also >not cheap) so you can use it to control many systems.
There is also an 8port switch unit that does this, but it uses proprietry software and so has limited client support (Win NT ?) - it's also expensive (around 8,000 UKpound IIRC). Possibly more useful, and easier to build I suspect, would be a video card (just a basic PCI video card with no frills) with on-board processor to do the VNC stuff. If the card used a basic and common video chip then this should avoid problems with drivers, and in theory the VNC processor should be able to read the video data directly from the on-board memory. The biggest issue of course is that many potential users may not be able (ie allowed for administrative rather than technical reasons) to change the video card in their server(s). Could the neccessary hardware hooks be derived from the VGA feature connector (that used to be) common on video cards ? Simon - Simon Hobson, Technical Services Engineer Colony Gift Corporation Limited Lindal in Furness, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0LD Tel 01229 461100, Fax 01229 461101 Registered in England No. 1499611 Regd. Office : 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
