re-adding Linux on PowerPC support to Xvnc server code
bronto
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Jul 19 16:03:01 2002
To be specific, the screen is just an olive drab color, blank, mouse moves
around, that's it.
At 02:59 PM 7/19/02 -0700, you wrote:
>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<---------------------
>> - -----
>> > >
>> > >--
>> > >Peter A. Castro <doctor@fruitbat.org> or <Peter.Castro@oracle.com>
>> > > "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood
>> > >
>> > >
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