Hi,
I've been chasing a bug with vnc-4.0, where eclipse (3.0) crashes the server. The crash seems to be related to selections and the red wiggly lines under syntax errors. It is pretty easy to reproduce and searching the vnc-list archives returns a number of similiar reports. I suspect that the error is somewhere in XDrawLines() e.g. Xserver/cfb/cfb8line.c.
Now, I tried to debug cfb8line.c a bit, but that code is very hard to work with, e.g. almost one third of 1500 lines is cryptic C preprocessor code. Instead I decided to try to change Xvnc to use the fb layer instead. The fb code is meant to be a modern, maintainable drop-in replacement for the cfb and mfb layers, and the change was not too difficult to implement. I've attached the patch that does this. The X.org project is moving to deprecate the cfb and mfb layers and at this point almost no servers in the X.org tree use them.
The patch is against the 4.0 release and adds a configure option, --with-fb, which will compile Xvnc against the fb layer. The existing cfb is still in place and preserved as the default choice. To reflect the autoconf'ed fb choice into the X servers Imake system, I've moved config/cf/vnc.def to config/cf/vnc.def.in so that configure can subst VNC_USE_FB into that file. After the patch is applied tarball, configure should be regenerated by running autoconf.
The patch is at http://people.redhat.com/krh/vnc/vnc-use-fb.patch.
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