Thank you. I was not aware of the Fedora repo. I downloaded them and that did fix my VirtualGL error. I was able to connect to VNC once, but haven't been able to reproduce my success. I'm going to keep working on it.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:43 PM DRC <[email protected]> wrote: > One nit pick regarding terminology: In the world of VirtualGL, "host" > generally means "server machine", so please use the term "client" or > "client machine" to refer to the computer that runs vglconnect/vglclient. > > Instructions for setting up TurboVNC on Fedora: > > - cd /etc/yum.repos.d > - sudo wget https://turbovnc.org/pmwiki/uploads/Downloads/TurboVNC.repo > - sudo dnf install turbovnc > > then run /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver to launch a session. Please report > any issues you encounter with that procedure on GitHub ( > https://github.com/turbovnc/turbovnc/issues/new) or the TurboVNC-Users > mailing list (https://turbovnc.org/About/MailingLists). > > As far as the VGL error message, that's a known issue with Fedora's > distribution of VirtualGL: > > https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/102 > > Please try installing our official package: > - cd /etc/yum.repos.d > - sudo wget https://virtualgl.org/pmwiki/uploads/Downloads/VirtualGL.repo > - sudo dnf install VirtualGL > > O/S distributors unfortunately like to distribute the VirtualGL faker > libraries in non-default library directories, without understanding that > this will break the ability to use VirtualGL with certain types of > applications (including VLC and popular web browsers.) > > On 12/14/20 9:05 AM, Eric Sokolowsky wrote: > > I'm using VirtualGL to try to speed up access to a remote camera, but I'm > getting error messages from VirtualGL. > > My host system is a macbook pro 16". I connect to a VPN and use vglconnect > and ssh configuration to forward my x11 connection through two hosts to my > destination.The destination machine runs Fedora 30 and has an Nvidia Quadro > M4000 graphics card. I can set VGL_CLIENT to the address on my host > assigned by the VPN and get glxspheres64 to run (using vglrun) at > approximately 700-800 frames per second for a bandwith total of 800-900 > Mpixels/sec (according to glxspheres64). > > However, with the same setup I try to run vlc which fails. I need to be > able to connect to the camera that is connected to this machine by USB. > Running vlc without vglrun works but the frame rate is pretty slow. I'm > hoping I can use VirtualGL to speed things up. Here are the error messages > I receive when trying to run vlc: > > [VGL] ERROR: Could not load GLX/OpenGL functions > [VGL] /usr/lib64/VirtualGL/libvglfaker.so: undefined symbol: > glXGetProcAddressARB > QMutex: destroying locked mutex > > I am also trying to follow the instructions for setting up a VNC server on > my destination machine but I haven't yet been successful at setting this up. > > Suggestions welcome. Thank you in advance. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VirtualGL User Discussion/Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/025f30b7-c764-4671-8c1b-aa6b46ba042bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/025f30b7-c764-4671-8c1b-aa6b46ba042bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VirtualGL User Discussion/Support" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/1647bd94-31b1-4595-0f70-8412b358e4c2%40virtualgl.org > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/1647bd94-31b1-4595-0f70-8412b358e4c2%40virtualgl.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VirtualGL User Discussion/Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/CAPiqgzPhuGHdBMpB3Oo50aF2uzzywG1Vy95bWLVT2Zun3k8mGA%40mail.gmail.com.
