Gnome and vnc

[Chartier Jerome]

Hi all,

I've installed gnome Ximian 14 on an HP server and followed the installation steps.
The server is a 11i with no graphical card.
I 've tried to modify /etc/rc.config.d/desktop as mentionned in the dco, stopped dtlogin.rc, started gdm.rc, but in the log files, I've got:
X server: Error in /etc/X11/X0screens (line 612)
Device name invalid or missing after keyword "Screen".
X server: Will try default "/dev/crt"
Failure to open default device file `/dev/crt`.
Please either specify the proper device filename in
your /etc/X11/X0screens file or fix `/dev/crt`. This filename is either
non-existent or is not a character special file.

Fatal server error:

/dev/crt doesn't exist on the server.

I intend to use gnome via vnc, as some of the bin from this env (mc, ...) are very useful.
I know I can launch them under cde, but for school purposes, has someone got a solution for this ????


Thanks in advance for your help

Cheers

Jerome C

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,
I don't know whether you can use VNC or not but You definately can use any Xwindows software ( Most available freely on Net).
and get the Gnome console on a PC.

Regards,

[Chartier Jerome]

Hi,

Did you check a misconfiguration in my installation description?

Regards

Jérô

[Gerard Leclercq · Accepted solution]

You can run gnome via vnc.
This is not necessary to configure X on the server, since there is no graphic card and since it will not be disolayed on the server.

After having installed vnc and started the vnc server, stop this vnc server and modify the file $HOME/.vnc/xstartup :
it should contain only :

PATH=$PATH:/opt/gnome/bin
export PATH
gnome-session&

Then restart the vnc server and connect to it through a vnc client.


Gerard

[Alex Glennie]

The error maybe irrelevant since it relates to the local Xserver : which can't start due to the lack of graphics h/w.

cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers -> /etc/dt/config/Xservers

since gnome startup still uses dtlogin :

if not already comment out the last line telling the X server to start on the local console, if should then not be expecting device files and the error should disappear.

will require a drop in run-level for the change to take effect.

[Chartier Jerome]

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies.

Gerard, I didn't post any more queries because I finally modified the vnc xstartup file with gnome-session .... So you are true as well as the fact that I have no HW card.


It is now working ... but thanks for your help ...

Cheers

Jerome C