DRC wrote:

> Yes, it appears that, for some reason, VNC is running as X display :0,
> which is not what you want.  Perhaps a system administrator configured
> your server machine to be headless?  That's the only reason I can think
> of that VNC would be running as the main X display.
>
> In the server machine, you want a "real" X server, i.e. Xorg, running on
> display :0 with a 3D graphics card attached and the accelerated drivers
> for that 3D card installed and running.  You want this X server to be
> running in 24-bit mode.  We call this the "3D X server", because it's
> where VirtualGL sends 3D commands to be rendered.
>
> Then, you want another X server to act as the actual display.  This "2D
> X server" can be located on the client machine across the network from
> the server machine, or the 2D X server can be a VNC session or other X
> proxy session on the server machine.  The 2D X server does not need to
> have 3D capabilities.

Thank you! Thank you! I finally get it.

A quick test running two X servers (one real, the other VNC'd) on the server 
machine has it working very well on the client connecting to the VNC session.

Once again, many thanks :)


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