[ydl-gen] Remote Desktop YDL PS3 to OSX

[Jonathan Bartlett]

I was _hoping_ that the OSX implementation of X11 would include hardward 
GLX support.  But, sadly, that is not the case.  If it were, you could 
probably do something on an X11-based implementation that you could not 
even do locally on the PS3, and make up for the lack of graphics 
hardware access there.

Jon

Sanders, Rob M. wrote:

> Jon,
>     I was wanting to do something very similar to what you suggest.
> I remember years ago logging in to remote machines from some
> 'dumb' X-windows terminal machines.  There are some performance
> advantages I believe tho by using VNC if you're not on a relatively
> hi-speed network.  I've got a 10/100/1000 switch at home in the
> computer room, but my 'rest-of-house' network is only 10mbs wired. 
> No wireless in place.  Also, CotVNC doesn't need X started on the
> Mac first.
>   I'm going to play with this some more when I can dig up some free
> time.....
>                                                 Rob
>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>     [mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]
>     *On Behalf Of *Jonathan Bartlett
>     *Sent:* Friday, December 22, 2006 8:52 AM
>     *To:* Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
>     *Subject:* Re: [ydl-gen] Remote Desktop YDL PS3 to OSX
>
>     Have you all considered just doing X?
>
>     You can set it up by unfirewalling the X ports (I don't know if
>     they are firewalled off, but I remove firewall settings of
>     distributions as a matter of habit), and running gdmsetup, which
>     will let you configure gdm to accept network requests.
>
>     Then, in OSX, you can just:
>
>     1) on your PS3, allow XDMCP connections on the firewall
>
>     iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 177 -j ACCEPT
>     iptables -I INPUT 1 -p udp --dport 177 -j ACCEPT
>
>     2) on your PS3, run gdmsetup, and under the "Remote" tab, do
>     something other than deny remote logins (mine is set to "same as
>     local")
>
>     3) on your OSX box, launch X11.  In the terminal that pops up at
>     the start of X11, start your X session in a new window
>
>     Xnest :1 -query HOST_OR_IP_OF_PS3
>
>     4) If you want a different window size, you can try adding a
>     "-geometry WIDTHxHEIGHT"
>
>     5) Note that it does NOT allow root logins in this manner.
>
>     Unfortunately, I don't know how to get OSX's glx to do direct
>     rendering :(
>
>     Jon
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