[mythtv-users] OT? Myth and VNC

[Henry A Harper III]

>
> Has anyone been able to get Myth running over VNC?  In particular, I'm
> using Fedora Core 7, and the stable version of Mythtv.  I'm also using
> the Xvnc that comes with Fedora.
>
> Trying to run mythtv-setup gives me Xlib errors that XInputExtension is
> missing.  I've tried adding +extension XInputExtenion but it doesn't
> seem to have any effect.  Further, according to the RealVNC website, my
> verison of XVnc comes with XInputExtension enabled by default anyway.
>
> What's the trick?
>
> Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2
> Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> Underlying X server release 10300000, The X.Org Foundation
>
> $ rpm -qi vnc-server
> Name        : vnc-server                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 4.1.2                             Vendor: Fedora Project
> Release     : 18.fc7                        Build Date: Mon 11 Jun 2007
> 08:53:02 AM CDT
> Install Date: Sun 19 Aug 2007 02:34:53 PM CDT      Build Host:
> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
> Group       : User Interface/X              Source RPM:
> vnc-4.1.2-18.fc7.src.rpm
> Size        : 4556831                          License: GPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 11 Jun 2007 01:58:30 PM CDT, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Fedora Project
> URL         : http://www.realvnc.com

Mine works well enough to run mythtv-setup or mythfrontend for setup (if I
want to actually read some of the tiny text or buttons that are lost in
overscan on my TV):
===
[mythtv at myth1 ~]$ rpm -qi vnc-server
Name        : vnc-server                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.1.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 39.fc5                        Build Date: Fri 26 May 2006
04:22:16 AM MDT
Install Date: Fri 18 Aug 2006 08:30:42 AM MDT      Build Host:
hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com
Group       : User Interface/X              Source RPM:
vnc-4.1.1-39.fc5.src.rpm
Size        : 2637704                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 26 May 2006 07:52:06 AM MDT, Key ID
b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.realvnc.com
Summary     : A VNC server.
Description :
The VNC system allows you to access the same desktop from a wide
variety of platforms.  This package is a VNC server, allowing others
to access the desktop on your machine.
===
OpenGL and XV don't work, of course, but the error messages I get are (this
is from starting mythfrontend):

DisplaResX: Unable to XRRgetScreenInfo
and
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":1.0".

I'm using FC5 as you can see from the rpm output. I think the only other
thing I did here was install fvwm from tarball since I like it better than
twm. My usual vncviewers are various versions of tightVNC, but that probably
doesn't matter. Nvidia driver is 9746, x.org is 7.0.0.