What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

[Axel Gonzalez]

On Monday 06 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:21, Axel Gonzalez wrote:
> > If you using KDE, you can enable desktop sharing, it uses the vnc
> > protocol, you can connect using a standard vnc client. (this is reported
> > to work on AMD64)
>
> That works here.
>
> I tried net/vnc but starting up give..
> [foo64 2:25] /usr/ports/net/vnc >Xvnc :1
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> Getting interface configuration (4): Device not configured
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Xvnc version 3.3.7 - built Jun  7 2005 02:21:40
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 All Rights Reserved.
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Desktop name 'x11' (foo64.gsoft.com.au:1)
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Protocol version supported 3.3
> 07/06/05 02:26:10 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
> failed to set default font path
> '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6
>/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fon
>ts/100dpi/' Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> And I don't know why since Xorg works fine..
>
> Personally I'd use X forwarding to run X apps on such a machine though.


See PR ports/71512

There is the complete description of the problem

There is a new version on ports... VNC 4.1.1, it starts the X display, but 
cant start any WM =\