Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:29:15 -0500 From: Jonathan Fosburgh <syjef@mdanderson.org> To: greg.lane@internode.on.net, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)? Message-ID: <200606221129.19239.syjef@mdanderson.org> In-Reply-To: <20060622075236.GA95258@router.lane.family> References: <20060622075236.GA95258@router.lane.family>
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--nextPart4501122.ouCX93ealv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 22 June 2006 02:52, Greg Lane wrote: > G'day everyone, > > I recently had to replace a disk and took the opportunity to > upgrade from 5-stable to 6-stable. I also changed from the > 32-bit to the 64-bit version. I have a dual Opteron server. > > VNC installed from ports (4.2.1) doesn't work on the 64-bit machine. > The same version installed on my home machine (32-bit) with the .vnc > directory copied over exactly from my work 64-bit machine runs fine. > So in what sense does it fail.... > > If I create a blank .vnc/xstartup, then I get the usual grey screen. > Then if I try and run X commands on that display, some work, like > xsetroot -solid blue, but others, xterm, icewm, twm, etc don't. VNC (tightvnc included) as well as NXWindows (IMHO, much better than VNC) a= re=20 based on old versions of XFree86 that don't support AMD64. I have had some= =20 success running the i386 package of tightvnc and starting only twm from the= =20 xstartup script. Some applications (just about anything using gtk) crash t= he=20 VNC server, and some (KDE) work all right. YMMV. I have tried to make NXWindows work on amd64 but there is just too much=20 patching that needs to be done for my meager skills. =2D-=20 Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX=20 --nextPart4501122.ouCX93ealv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEmsVfqUvQmqp7omYRArfoAJ41gsYJZx2NqRmPSknYoQmm+ril9wCgjY2Q aLG2t7++zivi8S49DlLO6xA= =a4sw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4501122.ouCX93ealv--
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