From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 03:02:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE1B16A4A6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:02:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40D245910 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:06:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so512527pye for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:06:47 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ldPWkS/NpvPX2kqf0q90lktktTyN+8qcoBPhjC/1KPr4Tm7M6tNYhjOZK0RSTouU7d7wJ/oRAJGH0pJj1Al3BcRqAZBSQcdPfeA/E1lPvHfaAHFlN+Q5UGRLZGJGm5pAgRdFNOpzHBkHrzjdSPunUGUofXseaAW/HeF8kP3WePk= Received: by 10.35.63.2 with SMTP id q2mr1546812pyk; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.75.8 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000606221506s7b1c3f99g3c748e19c37c59e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:06:46 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: greg.lane@internode.on.net In-Reply-To: <20060622212119.GA7232@router.lane.family> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060622075236.GA95258@router.lane.family> <200606221129.19239.syjef@mdanderson.org> <20060622212119.GA7232@router.lane.family> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan Fosburgh , savovski@gmail.com, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:02:42 -0000 On 6/22/06, Greg Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:04:34PM +0300, Alex Savovski wro > > I have the same ,problem,But I have never run on other version,I use > > RELENG_6_1, AMD64 > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 11:29:15AM -0500, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > VNC (tightvnc included) as well as NXWindows (IMHO, much better than VNC) are > > based on old versions of XFree86 that don't support AMD64. I have had some > > success running the i386 package of tightvnc and starting only twm from the > > xstartup script. Some applications (just about anything using gtk) crash the > > VNC server, and some (KDE) work all right. YMMV. > > > > I have tried to make NXWindows work on amd64 but there is just too much > > patching that needs to be done for my meager skills. > > Thanks for the info. I had figured something like this. I installed > the 64-bit system anticipating a future memory upgrade from the current > 4GB to 8GB. However, VNC is essential for various members of my group, > as is ports/devel/root (which doesn't compile on amd64) and there is > some of our own (also essential) custom software which is not 64-bit > clean. Since this holds up a number of people from their work > and my patching skills are VERY meager, I will have to roll back to > the 32-bit OS. > Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? Also, if you are running a Unix like OS why use VNC? You can achive %90 of the same features (with less of a memory/cpu impact) by running X apps remotely. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group