MOL thru VNC -- Command-Key equivalent?
Samuel Rydh
mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:00:50 +0100
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:50:07AM -0800, Jason Simpson wrote:
>
> Hi there, I'm new. I'm working with MOL under Debian/unstable.
>
> I finally got MOL up and running on my dual 604/180MHz equipped Umax
> J700. At first, I got it oldworld-booting the actual OS that's on the 120
> meg bootstrap partition I left on the harddisk, then I proceeded to try
> and get MacOS 9.1 to install onto an image file. This was rather
> frustrating as the Mac OS Installer refused to see the image file as an
> installable disk. According to Disk First Aid, it thinks the disk image
> file is a floppy disk. I thought that had something to do with the
> problem, but it turned out, after a lot of searching of the list archives,
> that there's a workaround: you have to set the cdrom device as -ro and not
> as -cd in order to get the installer to see the disk image file as
> installable. Whew. So now I've installed 9.1, upgraded to 9.2.1, and
> downloaded and installed 9.2.2. Seems to be working great.
Right, I had forgot about this problem. I'll look into it...
> My video card just plain doesn't work right under Linux. (It's an IMS
> TwinTurbo 128 with 2MB and provides either an unstable signal to the
> monitor, or in other modes appears as if i have double-vision.) Luckily,
> MOL features VNC video! This is perfect for my application anyway, because
> this box will likely be stuffed in a closet somewhere.
Actually, you'll probably get better performance if you
run X11 remotly instead of VNC...
> So, my question is: is there any way to get MOL's VNC server to accept
> some other keypress
No, the VNC driver does not support the MOL keyboard configuration layer
at the moment. The X11 driver does though...
/Samuel