Black screen on Win98 target

[James ''Wez'' Weatherall]

Sounds awfully like your network card/drivers are dodgy.

James "Wez" Weatherall
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Paul" <epaul "at" powershare.net>
To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Black screen on Win98 target


> I saw a number of messages about this in the archives, but no one ever
came
> up with a solution.  I hope the debug logs I have will help.
>
> Briefly, I am connecting to a target machine that is running Windows
> 98.  The problem is that shortly after connect, the VNC session will hang,
> and after disconnecting any new sessions have only a blank black
> screen.  The system needs to have the VNC client closed and re-opened to
> re-connect to the machine.  The problem happens in both service and
> application mode.  The problem seems to happen more frequently if I use
the
> JAVA viewer instead of the Windows viewer, though both will eventually
> cause the problem.  When I turned on debugging in the registry, the
problem
> became much harder to duplicate (it took me a week to get it to happen
> again.)  Here is what I think is the relevant snip of the log:
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