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bendy
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Location: Gloucester, UK
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 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject: tightvnc and xorg |
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I just built myself a new amd64 system and installed gentoo on it. This uses the now default xorg xserver, and it works fine.
I then emerged tightvnc. Although it didn't ask for any dependencies, it appeared to download a lot of xfree 4.3 files. I guess the tightvnc server needs this stuff to work, and hasn't been updated to work with xorg.
I only want the viewer on this machine however, but when I start the viewer and connect to a remote server, all of the colours are screwed up. Also, I get the following output to the console:
| Code: | nick@nickdesk nick $ vncviewer newserver:1
VNC viewer for X version 4.0b4 - built Aug 2 2004 20:15:40
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Tue Aug 3 17:07:29 2004
CConn: connected to host newserver port 5901
Tue Aug 3 17:07:30 2004
CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.3
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.3
Tue Aug 3 17:07:41 2004
TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16.
CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
CConn: Using ZRLE encoding
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I don't get this when starting the tightvnc viewer on other machines, and I was suprised that the output talks about RealVNC.
I checked, and I don't have (Real)VNC installed.
Is anyone aware of any issues with tightvnc and xorg, or even tightvnc and amd64? |
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GenKreton
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Joined: 20 Sep 2003
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Location: Cambridge, MA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I have no clue how to help but on my p4 and centrino tightvnc works well with xorg. Possibly a 64bit problem. |
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Steven Robertson
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have an AMD64 box (darn), so I can't answer this from experience. However, judging from your output, I think that the problem lies with tightvnc and amd64. Note the lines:
| Code: | TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16.
CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 |
This means that each pixel has a binary value like so: RRGGBBXX, where the two R bytes indicate the value of the red color for that pixel, etc. (Might be big-endian, but it's not important.) My guess is that the modified addressing system and/or a larger word size in AMD64 messes up that ordering, yielding funny coloring. VNC does this kind of crap a lot.
I'd try emerging RealVNC, as it seems to be maintained more regularly. It might solve your problem. Another possible solution is to play with the viewer's color options, such as -owncmap, -bgr233, or '-encoding raw'.
HTH!
EDIT: P.S. The RealVNC notice from within TightVNC is required because TightVNC is a fork of the RealVNC code. |
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bendy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Steven Robertson wrote: | | I'd try emerging RealVNC, as it seems to be maintained more regularly. It might solve your problem. |
Thanks - I tried RealVNC and it works fine. |
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