re-adding Linux on PowerPC support to Xvnc server code

[bronto]

OK, I got it installed, I can log in, but I expected it to start an X 
session just like startx does, i.e. get a login screen then loan Gnome.

Am I mistaken, or is there some configuration I need?

Rob

Thanks a lot for posting this!


At 06:07 PM 7/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, bronto wrote:
>
> > You've got no idea how badly I want to get vnc running on my server.
> >
> > Can you dumb down the instructions a little more and make a source .tar of
> > the whole package available?  This would be awesome.
>
>I'll do you one better: rpms
>
>http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/index.html
>
>http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
>http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-doc-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
>http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-server-3.3.3r2-34a.ppc.rpm
>http://www.fruitbat.org/linux/ppc/ydl-2.3/vnc-3.3.3r2-34a.src.rpm
>
>I've grabbed (what I think is) the latest 3.3.3r2 source rpm, added my
>patch to it and rebuild the src/ppc rpms as mod 34a.  I've installed and
>tested them under YDL-2.3, so all I can say is "they work for me" :-)
>
>I have no idea if my simple patch is truely all there is to re-adding PPC
>support (I suspect some maintainer, somewhere, is muttering "wrong wrong
>wrong!").  But at least it works (for now).
>
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > At 09:32 PM 7/17/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Hi All,
> > >   (I'm not quite sure just who should get this patch, so I'm sending 
> it to
> > >several, hopefully, relevent lists).
> > >   I've been wrestling with getting the vnc/tight-vnc server to run under
> > >YDL on PowerPC and not have not had any luck with any of the pre-build
> > >rpms after 3.3.3-4.  It appears this problem has existed every since
> > >vnc-3.3.3r2 or so.  The real problem is that support for Linux on PowerPC
> > >was dropped from the server machine dependent header file, I presume
> > >unintentionally.  Without it, the byte order defaults to LSBFirst which
> > >doesn't quite work on a big-endian machine :) I've re-added the code and
> > >am including a patch.  Note that with the patch, the compiler complains
> > >about IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER and BITMAP_BIT_ORDER being redefined, but that's
> > >OK :).
> > >
> > >The patch is against tightvnc-1.2.4 (tightvnc-1.2.4_unixsrc.tar.bz2), but
> > >probably patches against the generic vnc source as well.  Hopefully
> > >someone will figure out just who owns this file.
> > >----------------8<-----------------------------8<---------------------- 
> -----
> > >diff -ur vnc_unixsrc-1.2.4/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h
> > >vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h
> > >--- vnc_unixsrc-1.2.4/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h   Tue Mar
> > >19 21:36:47 2002
> > >+++ vnc_unixsrc/Xvnc/programs/Xserver/include/servermd.h         Wed Jul
> > >17 20:19:25 2002
> > >@@ -386,6 +386,22 @@
> > >
> > >  #endif /* linux/m68k */
> > >
> > >+#if defined (linux) && defined(__powerpc__)
> > >+
> > >+#define IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER       MSBFirst
> > >+#define BITMAP_BIT_ORDER       MSBFirst
> > >+#define GLYPHPADBYTES          4
> > >+#define GETLEFTBITS_ALIGNMENT  1
> > >+
> > >+#define LARGE_INSTRUCTION_CACHE
> > >+#define FAST_CONSTANT_OFFSET_MODE
> > >+#define PLENTIFUL_REGISTERS
> > >+#define AVOID_MEMORY_READ
> > >+
> > >+#define FAST_MEMCPY
> > >+
> > >+#endif /* Linux/PPC */
> > >+
> > >  #ifdef sgi
> > >
> > >  #define IMAGE_BYTE_ORDER       MSBFirst
> > >----------------8<-----------------------------8<---------------------- 
> -----
> > >
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