From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 23:15:49 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 648C516A492 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B2F5463E4 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:15:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f28so467142pyf for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:15:47 -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=E6OfHv8E0j/rIYFod2J0E+GNAOJ9OcWn7DsctDxJA6/rivOCU6TrFgt6OdeS3FOV3DPwBQBJwqaTzuszMRz9IOJeZxo9f3+RKbF8Kmf4oAfErtzi2WTRJXykiiepjTOtD6nilW+7OcZosSsr+6+/4wuxujJg6yh7hZMngvAErKA= Received: by 10.35.63.2 with SMTP id q2mr1607665pyk; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.75.8 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000606221615s4138166bma64b9bf0e686d2d5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:15:47 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: greg.lane@internode.on.net In-Reply-To: <20060622230005.GA8445@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> <57d710000606221506s7b1c3f99g3c748e19c37c59e9@mail.gmail.com> <20060622230005.GA8445@router.lane.family> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 23:15:49 -0000 On 6/22/06, Greg Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:06:46PM -0700, pete wright wrote: > > Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > I thought about doing that, but there is still other essential > software that is not 64-bit clean and our entire group needs this > machine back up ASAP since currently we are sitting on our hands > doing nothing till I get it back up. If I had a spare machine > I could potentially spend some time getting this sorted. But > we don't have a spare machine, we don't have any money to buy > one, there is only me to fix it, and I have to get some real > work done.... the usual story. > hmm, so there is no way to run the app's which are not 64bit clean in 32bit mode in your environment? > > 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. > > What about the other 10%? We use VNC because it saves state > for those of my users who work from multiple locations, at home, > at work and some are even based overseas. They don't want to > restart up to 20 windows every time they logon. Remote access > in this form is essential for their productivity. > screen? /usr/port/sysutils/screen I hope this is taken as friendly advice to save you work.... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group