NuBus Macintosh

[Jonathan Morton]

>I have a 6100 that I am attempting to run vnc server on.  I wrote a few
>days ago about not being able to connect to it, or my Blue and White G3,
>with the vnc-3.3.3 for linux client.  This problem still plagues me, but I
>have been able to connect from the windows client as well as from the Java
>client and the xrfbviewer-0.0.2.  I guess that I should assume that this
>is a bug in the linux server, although I do find it odd that no one else
>is having this problem.  In any case, the java solloution is good enough
>for now.
>	The question that I have is was there a vnc server that was stable
>on NuBus macs.  I find that after connecting to the mac a few times with
>the java client the server stops accepting connections.  Usually it gives
>me a T_DISCONNECT error, but sometimes it will just simply stop accepting
>connections, or take the system down with a bus error.  Any suggestions,
>besides not running a 6100 would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried the 3.3.2b2.3 version from my website, or are you just using
the AT&T version?  I am working on the Server, and one of the biggest
problems is stability on the NuBus PowerMacs such as your 6100 and my 8100
- although that has improved markedly in recent versions.  I suspect a
rewrite of the networking code using the stock PowerPlant routines may be
of help, but will require quite some investigation.  PCI PowerMacs appear
to have better stability than the NuBus machines, due to a different
interrupt-catching API available on these machines (a kludge I put in
without which the Server is hopeless).

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org  (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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