VNC patch for Xserver 1.3

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:21:08AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:10:09AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:03:51PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:01:34AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > > > > On 10/18/07, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Finally I gave your patch a try. Unfortunately it suffers from the same
> > > > > > problem as mentioned before. The Xserver crashes when the libvnc module
> > > > > > is loaded.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (**) Mouse[3]: always reports core events
> > > > > > (II) evaluating device (Mouse[3])
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Backtrace:
> > > > > > 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x496f0a]
> > > > > > 1: /lib64/libc.so.6 [0x2b5221649ba0]
> > > > > > 2: /lib64/libc.so.6(strlen+0x40) [0x2b522168eba0]
> > > > > > 3: X(xf86ActivateDevice+0x59) [0x499279]
> > > > > > 4: X(InitInput+0x4d) [0x46785d]
> > > > > > 5: X(main+0x370) [0x436210]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm wondering why you don't see this problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've only been using Xvnc, not the vnc module. I gave a quick whirl on
> > > > > libvnc (linux x86), and the server doesn't crash immediately. I
> > > > > haven't actually tried to connect, though. Is this crash you're seeing
> > > > > on startup?
> > > >
> > > > Yes. How does your configuration (xorg.conf) look like?
> > >
> > > The vnc options are currently commented out,
> >
> > ... which explains why this issue doesn't happen to you. As long as
> > you don't enalbe the sections in ServerLayout you won't get the crash
> > and the access to your Xserver either.
> 
> Sorry, wasn't clear. I did test with those options. I meant that they
> are now commented out because I don't normally use the loadable
> module, just Xvnc. So, all the stuff that you corrected the comments
> for are actually things that were enabled when I was testing vnc
> through Xorg.

So it does work for you for whatever reasons. Although we're using the
same patch. Strange.

Best regards,
Stefan

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