[mythtv-users] OT: Messed up VNC

[Daniel Agar]

> Hello all,
>
> Please excuse just how far off topic this is (aside from the fact that
> it's my MythBox that I'm trying to VNC into), but people on this forum are
> the most techy I know and I've had no joy asking this elsewhere.
>
> I'm running a VNC server in this way:
>
> xorg.conf:
>
> Section "Module"
> ...
>     Load        "vnc"
> ...
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> ...
>     # Allow VNC access to this screen
>     Option        "SecurityTypes"    "VncAuth"
>     Option        "UserPasswdVerifier"    "VncAuth"
>     Option        "PasswordFile"    "/root/.vnc/passwd"
> ...
> EndSection
>
> The problem is that when I try to look at the screen from a different
> machine (I'm usung TightVNC on XP), the display is all garbled. I can
> log in fine, but it looks like there are about 4 screens interlaced
> horizontally. I can kind or see what I'm doing enough to press a couple
> of buttons, but it's not usable. Any ideas what could be happening? I'm
> running the screen at 1280x720. I think that everything was fine with VNC
> when my display settings were wrong (I had a squashed 4x3 display
> fitting into a 16x9 box for months), but it's broken since I 'fixed' it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
> Damian
>
>
I've never tried the vnc module in x11 before as I usually stick with
x11vnc. It's probably not as fast, but it gets the job done when I need to
make a small change.

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
(packages likely available for your distro)