Re: [Xf4vnc-devel] can not find vncfb

[Alan H. <al...@fa...>]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 15:25 +0000, Thomas Bayen wrote:
> Alan Hourihane schrieb:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:22 +0000, Thomas Bayen wrote:
> >> Alan Hourihane schrieb:
> >>> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:56 +0200, Thomas Bayen wrote:
> >>>> In some older archives I read of a X Video Driver "vncfb". I want to use it
> >>>> to create a multihead display with two machines. I downloaded the actual
> >>>> version (xf4vnc-4.3.0.999) but I could not use it. Is the driver still there?
> >>>> Can someone give me a hint?
> >>> You should be able to use the "dummy" driver with the vnc.so module to
> >>> do what vncfb used to do.
> >> Thanks for your fast answer. I tried it but it does not work.
> >>
> >> If I log in (via KDE) to my User, it crashes with a signal 11 (the KDM Login screen works). It crashes only if there is a vnc viewer connected. I deactivated all other modules and tried to use one hardware and one dummy device and I tried just two dummy devices. I use the Debian etch Xorg package (7.1.0-16). It looks like a bug in the VNC Code.
> >>
> >> This is the output of my X Server (Debian etch package). Can someone help?!?
> >> [...]
> >>
> > 
> > That log looks to me like you are using the RealVNC version of libvnc.so
> > and not xf4vnc's.
> 
> Yes (shame on me), I could not make it work. I tried both but I could not install the xf4vnc version. It seems the download on the website is not for Xorg but only for XFree86, isn't it? I tried to compile it myself  with the help of http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/modular.html but could not get it work. After some time the RealVNC Version seemed to be the faster approach.
> 
> Do you think it is worth to try it again and change to the xf4vnc version? Does anyone can give me Binaries for Debian etch i386? Please :-)

Oh,

What's the actual build problems you are having as I really can't help
with the RealVNC code.

Alan.