On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Jacob Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> A lighter version of screenconnect that uses mono version 3.4 works good on
> angstrom 6.20 and the latest image 9.4 but does not work with debian or
> ubuntu any version for bbb.
>
> The newer version 4.0 stable did not work on anything at all until the beta
> 4.1 in which only worked mostly stable on the angstrom 6.20 image, but once
> flashing to 9.4 it installs fine but never lets you set it up via the
> webpage setup link.  Ubuntu and Debian not working of course.
>
> So it seems that the screenconnect team worked with some hacks to get the
> more mono intensive version of 4.1 to work but nowhere near as stable as on
> a windows machine.
>
> After researching out the links to requesting a good pure version of mono
> for armhf, My findings are somewhat confusing to if it should work or not.
> I will just take my gut feeling that the armhf needs master repositories for
> mono that is hard-float and not just patched to work.  Screenconnect seems
> to continue to develop more and more features and that means mono for armhf
> will be less and less reliable because its just patched to barely work.

"more and more features" yet no one's cared to port mono to armhf...
It's a very niche audience..

>
> After posting my request on the screenconnect forum there was only 24 hits
> to my link to ask for community support.  This means I am a very small
> minority to want to have someone for free, write over 500 lines of code and
> adjusting headers.
>
> I think unless the developer of screenconnect figures this out, I will have
> to either use windows laptop to host the server, or i can use my beaglebone
> black as a server but stuck on angstrom 9.4 image only able to have a great
> stable 3.4 version of screenconnect to do my job supporting customers
> remotely.
>
> I am a total newb about what it takes to write code and make things work in
> linux and am pretty sure it takes great efforts to make anything work on
> proprietary computers like the beaglebone.   Time will tell...mono or not to
> mono.

There is the "armel" option...

Use : https://github.com/RobertCNelson/netinstall

With the "--distro wheezy-armel" option.. just don't complain about it
being slower then armhf..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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