Hi, I'm running into all sorts of crashing vncservers when using tightvnc1.2.7 running on solaris 8. Mostly associated with netscape 7. It seems to be linked to complicated graphics, with graded color and/or moving graphics on a webpage. In fact, when I changed to the "modern" browser look, the vnc server kept crashing whenever netscape started. I couldn't even start it up to switch off the "modern" look.
Anway, long story. I'd like to see if RealVNC is more robust against these things. Also heard that it has some good compression going for slow lines, in case it's ever needed e.g. if you visiting another city and only have dialup access. Problem is, other people use my build of TightVNC, and I don't want to yank it away without first exploring RealVNC. Is there a way to do this? My concern is name collisions between executables and scripts. I can probably muddle around with my path to avoid this, assuming that I have the freedom to install it wherever I want. This leads to the next question. Second problem is that I'm not root. Can I build it as nonroot? I see that there are prebuilt RealVNCs for Solaris2.5, but I'm using Solaris 8 (is this equal to 2.8?) on a real sun box, not an i86. Do the prebuilt RealVNCs presume that the installer is root? If so, then I may have to go through the process of building from source; hopefully, the make scripts are gnu-like in that they accept the --prefix option for nonroot installers. Thanks for the advanced look. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
