On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:21:28PM +0100, Jim Avery wrote: > On 02/04/07, Willie McKemie <mckemie+maemo at spamcop.net> wrote: > >Has anyone had any luck using the 800 VNC viewer on a Ubuntu server? > >I've tried both Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 and can only get "could not > >connect to server". On the 7.04, I tried both the vncserver and > >vnc4server packages. > > To get vnc4server working on Ubuntu, I installed Xubuntu on top (to > get the xfce window manager) then followed the instructions here: > > http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2006/12/xubuntu-remote-desktop-with-vnc4server.html > > but found I also had to downgrade xvnc4server like so: > > http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/02/edgy-and-feisty-vnc4server-still-not.html > > Works fine with my n770. Can't say if it would on the n800. Thanks for the information! After reading grumpymole, I installed x11vnc on one of my Ubuntus (7.04) and then vncviewer on my 770. It works well! My wife is out of town with my 800 right now. -- Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 390 days 15 hours 53 minutes
