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/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
