VNC in Fedora 9 beta

[Adam Tkac]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:24:23PM +0000, Mike wrote:
> Adam Tkac <atkac <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I've finished vnc porting to X server 1.5 today but F9 beta is already
> > frozen. Current Xvnc tagged for F9 beta works fine but libvnc.so
> > module to Xorg is badly broken and doesn't work. With new vnc all works
> > as expected (tested on i386 and x86_64) but there're quite many changes
> > in vnc source... Also X server has to be patched with simple patch and
> > tagged to F9 beta. What is your opinion? Patch to xorg is attached
> 
> That sounds like excellent work and surely this would count as a bug fix 
> rather than adding new features - or is my understanding of the freeze
> incorrect?

Yes, we can call it bugfix (but quite big) because changes are needed
if we want working libvnc.so (it has to be build against xorg 1.5)

> After all surely vnc is a pretty essential part of the f9 beta distribution
> and fixing it so that it will work properly is vital?

Current Xvnc (based on 1.3 server) works. New Xvnc (based on 1.5
server) should work and benefit is working module to Xorg.

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.