Xvfb

Antoine Martin antoine at nagafix.co.uk
Fri May 28 12:35:09 PDT 2010


On 05/29/2010 01:58 AM, Collins, Cris wrote:
> Because Xvnc is producing same "XINERAMA extension not supported by
> server" I am guessing that  RedHat does not  compile in xinerama support
> into their Xvnc. The other clue is that Xvnc does not list xinerama
> option when doing a "Xvnc -help". 
My mistake, I got mixed up between XRANDR and XINERAMA. Sorry about that.

I do not understand why you would want to use XINERAMA with Xvfb though!
It doesn't make any sense: XINERAMA is to enable multi-head, but by
definition Xvfb is single head (a virtual one)

Antoine

>  I am trying x11vnc with the Vesa X
> server and xinerama, but the x11vnc just hangs and I never see the 5900
> with "netstat -ln". Thus getting connection refused when trying to
> connect. Any ideas why x11vnc is not fully starting? I have looked
> through the logs and such with no hints of wrong doing. Thank you for
> your reply.
> 
> Antoine Martin wrote:
>> On 05/28/2010 01:52 AM, Collins, Cris wrote:
>>  
>>> I am trying to get dual heads and xinerama to work with Xvfb and
>>> getting:
>>> xdpyinfo -ext XINERAMA
>>>
>>> Xlib: extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":0.0".
>>> XINERAMA extension not supported by server
>>>     
>> That's your answer.
>>  
>>> Xvfb :90 -screen 0 1024x2048x24 +xinerama &
>>> mwm :90&
>>>
>>> I have also tried
>>> Xvfb :90 -screen 0 1024x2048x24 -screen 1 1024x2048x24
>>> and
>>> Xvfb :90 -screen 0 1024x2048x24 -screen 1 1024x2048x24 +xinerama
>>> The later Seg faults.
>>>
>>> Any ideas why xinerama is not working.
>>>     
>> I asked this same question a while back: Xvfb does not and will not
>> support xinerama, but Xvnc and xorg-x11-vfb do.
>> You can try using those as alternatives.
>>
>> Antoine
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