Corrupted screen with VNC on Linux for S/390

[Patterson, Ross]

Rob van der Heij <rvdheij "at" iae.nl> writes:
>I am trying to get VNC working on Linux for S/390, and after 
>browsing the mailing list archives I still need some help. 

I'm in the same boat as Rob, on the same platform.  I built VNC from the vnc-3.3.3r2_unixsrc.tgz tarball at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download, with Adam Thornton's patch (config support in Xvnc/config/cf/Imake.cf,  Xvnc/config/cf/linux.cf, and Xvnc/config/image/imakemdep.h) applied.  vncserver starts and does indeed serve out a desktop (I'm using the Windows 98 vncviewer).  As Rob says, the xterm contents are truly garbled, but I find that the keyboard works just fine.  The echoed characters are gibberish, but commands typed into xterm do what they should (e.g. "write" sends intelligble messages to other users, "exit" closes the window, etc.).

Is it possible I've got some kind of character-translation problem on my hands?  Some font resource I need but VNC can't find and isn't complaining about?  The ~/.vnc/<host>:<dpy>.log file doesn't have any hints for me, it shows the connection arriving and later leaving, with nothing in between.

Anybody got a hint where to look next?

Many thanks,
Ross Patterson
Computer Associates Int'l, Inc.
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