Xen users - Aug 2005 - Xvnc in domU

Hi people!

Does anyone have experience with running Xvnc (or other VNC server) in domU? 
I have finally managed to get GDM running with Xvnc but there are
still some issues:

1) it is only running in 640x480 with 256 colours. I know I can give
Xvnc the parameters -geometry/-depth, but I don''t know how to tell GDM
to supply these parameters... Giving these parameters to gdm has no
effect. Can I set it somehow in /etc/X11/XF86Config?

2) I can''t log in. I can fill the username in gdmgreeter, confirm with
Enter, fill in password but even then Enter does nothing. Neither logs
me in nor complains abut wrong password. I suspect this to be a
problem of vncviewer because ocasionally it works. Anyway, has anyone
else seen this problem?

Thanks!

Giovanni

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users

> 1) it is only running in 640x480 with 256 colours. I know I can give
> Xvnc the parameters -geometry/-depth, but I don''t know how to tell
GDM
> to supply these parameters... Giving these parameters to gdm has no
> effect. Can I set it somehow in /etc/X11/XF86Config?
I think you''ll find the command line it uses to invoke X somewhere 
under /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf - add the parameters there.
> 2) I can''t log in. I can fill the username in gdmgreeter, confirm
with
> Enter, fill in password but even then Enter does nothing. Neither logs
> me in nor complains abut wrong password. I suspect this to be a
> problem of vncviewer because ocasionally it works. Anyway, has anyone
> else seen this problem?
Weird... Try a different VNC viewer and see what happens?  KDE has a nice one 
called krdc which can also do client side scaling.  I''ve never seen
this
happen, anyhow.

Cheers,
Mark

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@lists.xensource.com
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users