VNC server on Beaglebone

[David]

Has anyone gotten a VNC server running on Beaglebone? I have installed
the x11vnc program using opkg, after adding the Angstrom armv7a base
feed to my /etc/opkg directory. However, when trying to run a
vncserver session, I receive the following error:

x11vnc: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any ideas what else needs to be done to get this working? Thanks for
your guidance.

[Thomas Oltzen]

Do you have install the libgcc files?

opkg install libgcc1
opkg install libgcc-dev

May be it help.

[Jamie Laing]

Hi David,

I was able to get a VNC server running on the Android OS for
BeagleBone, but unfortunately I need it to run on the Angstrom
distro. Have you had any luck with this?

The closest I got was using the TI Sitara distro that came with the
bone. I did an "opkg update" and "opkg upgrade", installed the x11vnc
application, and was able to use the -create parameter to supposedly
spawn an X11 process and get the BeagleBone listening on port 5900,
but unfortunately it crashes every time I attempt to connect.

[Jamie Laing]

Well as an update to this I can say I got Ubuntu 11.04 running on the Beaglebone, and I'm able to VNC into it.  It's not terribly fast, but it does work.

[Rajan Sachdeva]

Jamie

Can you please attach link to instructions for me to set this up

[MarioACIC]

install server:

$opkg install tightvnc-viewer

run server:

x11vnc --forever

then use VNC client form other PC

I hope to be helpful in your purposes,

[Mark A. Yoder]

How do you make the vnc server start every time the Beagle boots?

--Mark

[MarioACIC]

in Angstrom:

go to "startup application preferences"

ADD

Command: /usr/bin/x11vnc -forever

that's all

[gehl...@gmail.com]

I must be going crazy. I've installed x11vnc and various dependencies, set it up to kick off twm and an xterm, start x11vnc and start vncviewer on another machine. A window pops up, left-click gets me the twm manager, looks good. But there's no xterm...

Look in the log and see *xterm can't be found!* There is no xterm in the Angstrom distro. No packages list it either. 

Regular Beaglebone, Angstrom updated and upgraded, etc.

Can anyone spare an xterm?

Mike

[gehl...@gmail.com]

I meant to say, there is no xterm in the Angstrom Beaglebone image, or in opkg installable packages...

Mike

[Skanda]

I have angstrom on beaglebone. And installed x11vnc (server) on the board. When I run the server, it crashes without throwing any error.

And assuming that the server is running, if i try to connect from a host, it says "Connection refused" on the host side.

Any suggestions are helpful.

Skanda

[josmfe...@gmail.com]

Hi guys,

I had an issue making a VNC connection to my BBB from a windows 8.1 computer. I had to reuse this BBB from another project and had disabled the HDMI cape. That prevented the screen from being shared. So I just re enabled the HDMI cape and could establish the connection again. It's sort of a con that I'm not able to use some PRU pins and be able to access the BBB remote desktop. Anyway, I hope this helps someone else.

Cheers,