Problem solved. Found some reference to this problem on some Debian lists. It turns out that running xfs seems to do the trick, though in my case I had to correct what seemed to be an error (or perhaps an eccentricity) in the Gentoo xfs init script. If there's one thing I can say about Gentoo, it's that it has forced me to learn a bunch of stuff that I'd never have to know to run Red Hat or Mandrake!
Matt On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 03:09 PM, Matt Holland wrote: > Has anyone ever tried to use realplay on a vnc desktop? The situation > is that I have is that I have a box without a monitor that's hooked up > to a stereo, and I'd like to be able to use it to listen to realaudio > content. If I run an Xvnc desktop on that machine and login from > another machine, I can open realplay, and it works, except that the > menu font is all screwed up (I just get a bunch of those little dotted > rectangular boxes that you see when the proper font encoding isn't > available). This makes for a challenging user interface! Another clue > is that while the window background is typically grey, when running > under vnc, approximately the lower 2/3 of the window is tinted a light > blue color. I ran realplay on this box when it had a monitor, and > everything displayed perfectly under XFree86 4.1. > > I'm having a hard time tracking down the problem, because there doesn't > seem to be anything relevant in the vnc log (i.e., it's not complaining > about missing fonts or anything), and the UNIX version of RealPlayer is > almost completely undocumented (not to mention that the source is > unavailable). It would seem, though, that since everything works > properly under XFree86, maybe Xvnc is to blame (or the configuration > thereof). Google searches have turned up nothing promising. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech