VNC Control no more?

[David Lawrance]

Until 2.0, I was able to control SageTV from a remote computer using Ultr@VNC. Now, when I connect, the SageTV menu screen shows up as a uniform blue screen without text or graphics. Is this a problem for anyone else? I can still see the Windoes Start menu and menu bars as usual.

David

[JasonJoel]

I don't use UltraVNC, I bored/regular RealVNC.

It is still working just fine for me.

Jason

Originally posted by David Lawrance
Until 2.0, I was able to control SageTV from a remote computer using Ultr@VNC. Now, when I connect, the SageTV menu screen shows up as a uniform blue screen without text or graphics. Is this a problem for anyone else? I can still see the Windoes Start menu and menu bars as usual.

David

[Cayars]

I use UltraVNC too and I just noticed the same thing 5 minutes ago. I was just coming here to post the same info.

Carlo

[fventura]

Sorry to report that I use UltraVNC also and it works fine for me....

What's different in our configs? I use all 250 cards no 350's if that is a difference? WinXP.

[pawn]

Originally posted by fventura
Sorry to report that I use UltraVNC also and it works fine for me....

What's different in our configs? I use all 250 cards no 350's if that is a difference? WinXP.

I'll bet it has something to do with video rendering: are you using Overlay, VMR or VMR9? Did you enable 3D acceleration?

[KJake]

I switched from UltraVNC to RealVNC Beta 4 because it supports dual display!

[fventura]

On my server (SageTV) I am using the default video renderer (don't know what that is...) and 3d Acceleration is DISABLED.

On the sageclient machine I am using Overlay and 3D acceleration is ENABLED.

PS: I UltraVNC'ed over to check these settings

[krutaw]

Originally posted by David Lawrance
Until 2.0, I was able to control SageTV from a remote computer using Ultr@VNC. Now, when I connect, the SageTV menu screen shows up as a uniform blue screen without text or graphics. Is this a problem for anyone else? I can still see the Windoes Start menu and menu bars as usual.

David

I use dameware when I need to see graphics, and vbscripting for everything else.

[falchulk]

Dameware rocks. Been using it professionally for 2.5 years now.

[DynamoBen]

This might be the problem I ran into a few weeks ago. When I installed UltraVNC server on the Sage box one of the last option is a virtual display driver.
This caused tons of problems.

After I reinstalled and unchecked this option all was well. Please keep in mind this was when I was using 1.4. I'm now using the most recent beta and haven't had any problems. Except the fact that its very slow controlling things.

Hope that helps.

[krutaw]

Originally posted by falchulk
Dameware rocks. Been using it professionally for 2.5 years now.

Yeah, we have too, and since I bring my laptop home, and it just happens to have to have it on here for work... hehe

[David Lawrance]

Thanks, all. Having the 3D Acceleration acceleration turned on the server side broke it. What do you suppose that option is for, anyway?

The virtual display driver in Ultr@VNC was causing me a problem several weeks ago in 1.4, and removing it had already been discussed in the forum.