On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > on the server side i then restarted X (init 3; init 5) and, from the > > client side: > > > > $ vncviewer 192.168.1.4:0 > > > > and, lo, i get a VNC window, but it looks like crap -- jagged > > graphics, underneath which you can vaguely see that, yes, it is > > trying to represent the remote desktop, and the remote control > > does work but, clearly, i have some work to do here. > > As I recall now, that's why I quit using it. I was getting one chunk > of the screen twice and the rest was fuzzy. I think I got some > advice suggesting it was related to the underlying video card but I > gave up and haven't noticed any announcements saying it was fixed. i can appreciate that -- i've tried invoking vncviewer with various encoding formats and such and the end result is the same -- massive, stairstep-type jaggies to the point where you can *vaguely* see that there's a desktop underneath, but it's utterly illegible. however, there is reason to be optimistic. you referred to this page for assistance: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=162314 which recommends a whole *buttload* of changes and additions. as i mentioned, i got as far as i did with only the following changes to the server's /etc/X11/xorg.conf (forgive me for repeating myself): Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection Option "SecurityTypes" "None" <-- added this EndSection Section "Module" <-- and these three lines Load "vnc" EndSection i just wanted the absolutely minimal config that would get this working. and after restarting the X server, aside from the crappy display, it does work -- on the client side, even though i can barely see what's happening, i can look at the desktop on the server to follow the action, and the mouse and the keyboard work perfectly. in short, i'm willing to believe that it's actually working properly, i just need to figure out how to fix the display on the client side from looking like crap. and, on that note, i'll leave it alone for now but i'll be happy to test any suggestions that come my way. after all, this really is a handy enough feature that it would be a shame to get this close and not get it working fully. rday p.s. depending on the web page i read, there are two suggestions for loading the vnc.so module on the server: first: Section "Module" Load "vnc" EndSection second: Section "Module" SubSection "vnc" ... vnc options ... EndSubSection EndSection i know next to nothing about the xorg.conf file -- should i assume that defining a SubSection in a "Module" section automatically implies a "Load" of that module? p.p.s. i'll probably wiki all of this shortly, even in its incomplete state. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
