Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. I suspect that this is the infamous anti-aliased fonts compiled into the qtlibraries bug. Suffered from this one myself. If you go to the Texstar repository off of http://pclinuxonline.com site, you should be able to download a fix for this issue which will remove the AA fonts from the qt libraries and enable tightvnc to work. If you have problems, let me know and I will send a direct link to the source repository for those rpm's. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
you need to update your version of QT. You can do this in your mandrake control center... David -Original Message- From: James D. Parra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:04 AM To: Mandrake-List (E-mail) Subject: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncfix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:16 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncf ix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:08 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. I suspect that this is the infamous anti-aliased fonts compiled into the qtlibraries bug. Suffered from this one myself. If you go to the Texstar repository off of http://pclinuxonline.com site, you should be able to download a fix for this issue which will remove the AA fonts from the qt libraries and enable tightvnc to work. If you have problems, let me know and I will send a direct link to the source repository for those rpm's. There is also an official Mandrake update for this now available from any of the update mirrors. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by default got render as compiled in, and VNC doesn't handle that one well. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:16 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncf ix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by default got render as compiled in, and VNC doesn't handle that one well. It's actually qt that is crashing, and it will happen on any display that does not support the render extension, including vnc, XFree86 3.3.6, XForbserver, etc. libqt must be updated on the host machine. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
