Enabling VNC

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> I think I have made the necessary changes to my xorg.conf file.  I have 
> included the changes below.
> Section "Module"
> (several lines of Load here)
>        Load  "dri"
>        # The next line added by Jeremy Conlin on 10-20-04
>        Load  "vnc"
> EndSection
> 
> and also
> 
> Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "Screen0"
>        Device     "Videocard0"
>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>        DefaultDepth     24
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Viewport   0 0
>                Depth     24
>                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>        EndSubSection
>        # The following line added by Jeremy Conlin 10-20-04
>        Option  "passwordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
> EndSection
> 
> Now do I have to reboot to have this take effect?  How do I start 
> viewing the desktop, through ssh?  Is there simply a command I enter 
> after logging in?

You need to put a password in your password file.  Look at the vncpasswd 
command in order to do this.  Make sure you do this as "root" so that it 
writes it to the correct file.

After that, you should only need to restart the X server.  You need to 
make sure that it shuts down entirely, then restart it.  "telinit 3" 
should be useful if you're running at init level 5.  Then make sure with 
"killall X" as root after you login to one of your consoles.  Then 
"telinit 5" should restart X for you....

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Kevin J. Cummings
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