David A. Woyciesjes wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> Justin Cataldo wrote: >> >>> Ah I see. Well that should work. It's obviously connecting since >>> you get >>> the dot. >>> >>> I've had similar issues with TightVNC before. It sits for ages >>> saying it is >>> doing the initial screen draw, but never connects. >>> >>> I'd suggest trying RealVNC (realvnc.com). >>> >>> *VNC Free Edition for Linux (x86) >>> http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi >> >> >> The version RH ships does not work - >> [summer at bilby ~]$ vncviewer emu >> >> VNC viewer for X version 4.0 - built Mar 31 2005 17:48:27 >> Copyright (C) 2002-2004 RealVNC Ltd. >> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. >> >> Fri Mar 23 21:09:18 2007 >> CConn: connected to host emu port 5900 >> CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889 >> CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8 >> >> Fri Mar 23 21:09:23 2007 >> TXImage: Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16. >> CConn: Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222 >> CConn: Using ZRLE encoding >> >> Fri Mar 23 21:09:24 2007 >> CConn: Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding >> CConn: Throughput 5125 kbit/s - changing to full colour >> CConn: Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565 >> CConn: Using hextile encoding >> unknown message type 255 >> main: unknown message type >> [summer at bilby ~]$ >> >> However, I'm getting along just swimmingly with the TightVND included >> in OpenSUSE. >> >> > > Yep. I get the same error with vncviewer... > Hmmm, what command options are you using with TightVNC? > The absolute minimum; hostname:0 -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list