PATCH: use fb instead of mfb+cfb

Kristian Høgsberg krh "at" redhat.com
Wed Aug 25 15:03:00 2004


Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:33:00PM +0200, Kristian HC8gsberg wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been chasing a bug with vnc-4.0, where eclipse (3.0) crashes the
>>server.
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Now, I tried to debug cfb8line.c a bit, but that code is very hard to
>>work with, e.g. almost one third of 1500 lines is cryptic C preprocessor
>>code. Instead I decided to try to change Xvnc to use the fb layer
>>instead.
> 
> Did the crash go away?

Doh, forgot to mention that ;-)  Yes, the crash did go away.  I wasn't 
able to crash Xvnc with fb, I tried eclipse, with the case that would 
bring Xvnc+cfb down and I ran a GNOME session under vnc. No crashes.

Kristian