From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 16:29:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DB416A47C for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:29:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: from mail.mdanderson.org (mail.mdanderson.org [143.111.251.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E5143D49 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:29:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from syjef@mdanderson.org) Received: by jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4DF8ABC5B; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:29:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Organization: UT MD Anderson Cancer Center To: greg.lane@internode.on.net, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:29:15 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060622075236.GA95258@router.lane.family> In-Reply-To: <20060622075236.GA95258@router.lane.family> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4501122.ouCX93ealv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606221129.19239.syjef@mdanderson.org> Cc: Subject: Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:29:30 -0000 --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--