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[AM1808] VNC

Michael Schnell
Prodigy 110 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AM1808

Hi OMAP Community.

 

I'm new here and I'm intending to work with the AM1808 processor that seems to be an "industrial" version of the OMAP L 138 (pin-compatible but lacking the DSP).

So maybe I'm right here with AM1808 Linux questions.

The actual questions that arises to me is: Will I be able to remote-control the Linux system running on the chip with enabled (but not connected) LCD panel using VNC via TCP/IP ?

Thanks for any suggestions,

-Michael

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    TI__Mastermind 43875 points

    Michael,

    VNC does not require e physical display normally, and in fact should be able to handle multiple and different server instances. It does require a window manager to be running though I believe.

    When you say you want to remote control, what exactly do you want to do? You should be able to log into the device and connect through a terminal connection if you only need text based control. If you want a full graphical interface then you need a window manager running.

    Hopefully some of the folks that do this on a daily basis can give you more information on exactly how to achieve it though.

    BR,

    Steve

  • 0 in reply to Steve Clynes
    Prodigy 110 points

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for answering !

    I in fact want to have the system run X and and appropriate widget set and Window manager to allow for running programs that have a GUI. VNC is one nice option to remote-control this. An even nicer option would be "NX", but I fear that NX-server is not available for ARM yet (but maybe I'm wrong).

    Using a remote X server is not a very good idea as the program is supposed to run if no remote device is attached.

     

    Thansk again,

    -Michael

     

     

     

  • 0 in reply to Michael Schnell
    TI__Mastermind 43875 points

    If you have X running then I believe you should be OK, but you will need to check this since I have not actually done this myself.

     

    I can't think of any reason at the moment why it wouldn't work though.

    BR,

    Steve

  • 0 in reply to Michael Schnell
    TI__Mastermind 41665 points

    Michael Schnell said:
    VNC is one nice option to remote-control this. An even nicer option would be "NX", but I fear that NX-server is not available for ARM yet (but maybe I'm wrong).

    This is certainly a possibility, I have seen it done on the Beagle board running the Angstrom Linux distribution, there is a video here. As to NX, that may be a possibility, as far as I can tell OpenNX provides all the sources, though I am not sure how much porting if any would need to be done to get it running on an ARM. I use NX to instantiate multiple GUI desktops to facilitate user sharing of a Linux build box, but for a simple desktop share I have always used VNC, so for what you describe it seems like VNC may be good enough?