Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-19 Thread D A Vincent
At 08:14 -0700 18/4/02, you (Jonathan Morton) wrote: >I was having particular trouble with certain viewers, which caused >all kinds of havoc when it proved necessary to scroll the window. >Frequently, the result was a partially-updated view and extremely >poor performance. Since I expected mo

VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-18 Thread Isaac Wingfield
>>Suggestion: Put "Alertia" on the 7100; it can take care of at least one of >>the reasons VNC won't operate: open dialog boxes waiting for you to click >>"OK". > >That's strange. I've never had ChromiVNC come to a halt because of this... >The vncPatches have quite a number of patches which should

Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-18 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I remember Jonathan mentioning to me that he thought it was better >for the client to have the whole display at its end, even if it was >not all needed, so it was ready for the case when it scrolled into >view (or something like that...) I was having particular trouble with certain viewers, whic

Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-18 Thread Adrian Umpleby
>I think it might be possible for some system dialogs for >high-priority tasks to wait for the dialog to be answered before >allowing the VNC server (or the patches) to continue. I seem to >remember something like this, but I'm not sure. It should be rare, >so it would indeed be interesting to h

Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-17 Thread D A Vincent
At 22:19 +0100 17/4/02, you (Adrian Umpleby) wrote: > >Suggestion: Put "Alertia" on the 7100; it can take care of at least one of >>the reasons VNC won't operate: open dialog boxes waiting for you to click >>"OK". > >That's strange. I've never had ChromiVNC come to a halt because of this... >The

Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-17 Thread Chris Bartlett
>Absent a keyboard and monitor, your only choice would be a hard >reboot, and you'd never know what had caused the problem. This pitfall really doesn't bother me. Once I get it 100% up and running (it is minus VNC working without a monitor attached), then I am going to burn the drive to CD... s

Re: VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-17 Thread Adrian Umpleby
>Suggestion: Put "Alertia" on the 7100; it can take care of at least one of >the reasons VNC won't operate: open dialog boxes waiting for you to click >"OK". That's strange. I've never had ChromiVNC come to a halt because of this... The vncPatches have quite a number of patches which should inter

VNC with headless Mac

2002-04-17 Thread Isaac Wingfield
Chris Bartlett wrote: >I have my firewall all set up (PM7100 running IPNR) and VNC server on the >Mac seems to work just fine (AT&T version). > >However, I want to make this a headless machine (no keyboard, mouse, or >monitor). Every time I boot the Mac without the monitor attached, VNC >fails to