Thank you Wez,
It all built and installed without errors, albeit with a lot of "elbow
grease". My first connection to the console display froze up the system
within seconds, though. I had to power cycle the machine to get it back.
To prevent angering the gathering lynch mob, I won't be making another
connection until late in the day. Besides, the software RAID needs time
to rebuild parity. I'm hoping that the freeze was something that won't
repeat after the system restart.
Since I'm not familiar with the layout of xfree86.org I still had to
search to find the tar-ball and patches you mentioned. They weren't
right there on the "downloads.html" page where I expected.
I followed the instructions in "vnc-4_1_2-unixsrc/unix/README" exactly.
The only unexpected event was a single missing patch file
(xc/doc/specs/Xaw/TextSource) which I skipped.
The XFree86 build was long, but uneventful. I got this message when it
was done:
"Full build of Release 6.6 of the X Window System complete."
"./vncinstall /usr/bin /usr/share/man /usr/X11R6/lib/modules" put
everything where it should be.
I added entries to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to support remote console
display and vnc password authentication.
Section "Module"
...
Load "vnc"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
...
Option "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth"
Option "UserPasswdVerifier" "VncAuth"
Option "PasswordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd"
EndSection
I set vncpasswd for root, then restarted X with <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace>
from the physical console.
>From an adjacent machine on the same network (with vnc-4.1.2-1
installed) I ran "vncviewer winggear:0".
Authentication worked.
Display came up with the appropriate XDMCP login prompt.
Within 15 seconds the system on which I'd just build vnc froze.
Power reset was required to recover.
--Cal Webster
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