At 02:44 AM 2/11/2003, tom potts wrote:
I was just wondering if its possible to 'spoof' VNC screen sizes? ie I install a 'remote' PC with X11 on a minimal graphics card and then, while connecting in with VNC I pretend its as good as the graphics card/screen on the machine I'm using as 'monitor'. Tom
Good question Tom,
I have a suspicion that this is driver dependent. Meaning that VNC captures the screen signal on the downstream side of the graphics driver but before it ever hits the graphics card. I would guess (and that's all it is) that you could get any resolution you like if the driver can provide it.
Try installing the drivers for a high end graphics card. If the drivers themselves will install without the physical card being present, I really don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. I have successfully VNC'ed into a machine that had a physically corrupt video card and I VNC into boxes that have no monitor attached all the time.
George.