vnc server problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jan 19 05:28:42 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 23:15 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 01/18/2009 10:51 PM, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 22:42 -0500, Mail Lists wrote:
> ow do you know that it's not listening on 5900?
> > 
> > netstat -an |grep 5900
> 
>   err yes ... i ran it without the -n (doh me) ... it is listening ..
> and that is confirmed in addition by:
> 
> Good News:
> -----------
>   a) /var/log/gdm/:0.log
> 
>  vncext:      VNC extension running!
>  vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5900
>  vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
> 
>   b) vncviewer does show something .. but ...
> 
> Bad News:
> ----------
>   THe client end is not legible - it is all smeared and full of lines
> ... totally unusable.
> 
>  If it matters ... the remote end has this graphics chipset:
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 
> 
>   Happy for any suggestions ?
----
I'd rather not speculate and one thing is certain...that the methodology
you are using to launch it leaves me clueless as to where vncserver
would log to and I would suggest that you figure out how to make it log,
or if it is logging, read through the logs for errors. The local xserver
(the machine you are working on) might also have some clues in the logs
and assuming that you are using the VNC Viewer application, it would
probably log in your ~/.vnc directory.

Craig




More information about the users mailing list