VNC Server for 2.1

[bronto]

Micheal and Chris:

Peter Castro solved the VNC problem back in July.  Here's his quote:
At 6:07 PM -0700 7/18/2002, Peter A. Castro wrote:
>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).

I've got it working on my system; it's pretty reliable but not fast 
over bronze DSL.

Chris:

Running X11 remotely sounds like a dream come true for me.  I work 
very little with X itself and have no idea where to start.  Can you 
point me to a HOWTO?

Rob




>Michael,
>
>Can I recommend using X11 - remotely without the need of VNC? You have to
>tweak the X login program to run the normal Gnome version, not the YDL
>version. Once you got that up (which means editing a file - I forgot which -
>in /etc/X11 somewhere) you can tell it to allow remote logins. You can then
>do
>X :2 -kb -query IPADDRESS_HERE > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>and it will give you an X11 login on the YDL machine.
>Under Windows, you need to install Cygwin and their X server to make it work.
>
>It's very fast, no garbled stuff, much better than VNC in my opinion ...
>
>Best regards,
>Chris
>
>
>On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:56, Michael LeBlanc wrote:
>>  Does anyone have a VNC package for 2.1?  I noticed that
>>  an SRPM comes with 2.3 and tried to build and install it
>>  on 2.1.  The server runs, but the clients I have tried,
>>  Solaris 8 and W98, see windows and menus that contain
>>  only garbage.  Thanks.
>>
>>  Mike
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