On 2011/06/28 07:31, Ian McWilliam wrote:
> On 28/06/2011 5:28 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> >On 2011-06-27, Bernd Schoeller<be...@fams.de>  wrote:
> >>Dear Stuart,
> >>
> >>Thanks for the answer. I had tried to avoid x11vnc, as its setup looks
> >>somewhat more complicated for a headless machine - and it did not seem
> >>to be the right solution.
> >>
> >>But I will give it a shot.
> >Yes, unfortunately it is more complicated, but it's the only really-working
> >option in the ports tree. TigerVNC would be more convenient but it needs
> >to be combined with the Xorg source tree to get it building.
> >
> 
> TightVNC has been broken on AMD64 for oh so long....insert release
> number here, probably busted on all 64bit architectures.

Broken on big-endian too.

>                                                          Last time I
> tried it, it did run on i386, but that was last time I tested it,
> according to CVS history approx 20 months ago.

It runs on i386, but from what I remember it's not very useful, doesn't
have modern font handling etc.

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