Hi, I have spent most of the last two weeks battling with tigervnc built from source on x86-64 kubuntu 9.10
The results are pretty good and certainly provide the basic tech support functionality I was looking for. However, I think I have found some significant bugs that you may want to look into. 1. display :0 size is not detected correctly 2. Bandwidth auto-detection is badly wrong in the context I am running. 3. performance is very poor unless I compress the the ssh link. What I built: x86-64 build using ubuntu source pkgs for xorg-xserver copied onto the tigervnc-1.0.0.tar.gz tree. ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2" FFLAGSS="-g -O2" \ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions" --disable-xvfb --disable-xnest --disable-xorg Target hardware: HP laptop using Intel GM45 and i915 from Xorg.0.log it loads i956_dri.so and used Modeline 1366 x 768 VNC context: All tiger vnc software is run on the remote kubuntu box via ssh from local linux system. r...@local# ssh -C -X -L 5900:localhost:5900 remote.dyndns.info r...@remote:~# vncviewer localhost:0 The bugs: 1. This works pretty well but the vnc server sends 1366 x1366 . Nearly the double of the correct size , the extra being a black areas below the desktop image in the client window. 2. The F8 connection information shows an estimated bandwidth of 20000 kb/s . This must not be testing the right thing. The link via internet is about 380 kB/s on remote and and only 88kB/s on local. 20Mb/s must be looking at localhost on remote. 3. I have to use compression on the ssh link to achieve reasonable performance. In this context 24b colour is a pretty sluggish but functional. 256 colours is usable provided there's not animated content. Starting ssh without -C , it takes about 2 minutes [sic] to redraw the desktop. What I have is not tops but adequate for remote tech support. As such it is satisfactory, but I think I have probably pinpointed a couple of issues that may have been outside current test contexts. If you would like more details on the conditions that produce these errors, please get back to me. Best regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
