vnc screen corruption in FC4?

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Wed Aug 3 17:29:10 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 17:27 +0100, mike cohler wrote:
> After installing FC4 on two machines (clean installs) it was noticed
> that getting VNC loaded on the server machine by
> editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to include 'load "vnc" ' and an appropriate
> password option line, gave screen corruption when connecting from a vnc
> client machine (also running current FC4), whenever the mouse was moved
> or keys were clicked. 
> 
> In this case vnc was running in an ssh tunnel. The identical setup was
> used without previous problems with FC3.
> 
> This has been reported in bugzilla at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162304
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem using FC4 machines, and if so have you
> managed to solve it?
> 
> Or will we have to wait for an update rpm? I note that there is a
> version of vnc and vnc-server on the development list for rpms as 
> vnc-server-4.1.1-14.i386.rpm
> and similar for vnc itself.
> 
> Has anyone tried these in FC4 ?  
> 

If I ssh -X from a machine running FC4 into another machine running FC4,
and run "vncviewer localhost", it works perfectly.
Did you try with different encoding types?




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