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andysimmons
04-12-2003, 07:47 AM
Yeah I know this is probably totally impractical because of framerate issues, but I'm tired of taking my computer to work to play games so I want to try it out for the heck of it. Anyway, I got my router and vncserver set up so I can just connect to my home pc from work, and eventually I want to try some cool games but Tux Racer is all I have installed right now. TR runs just fine locally, but when I try it over the VNC connection I get this error:
*** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize SDL: Found no sufficiently capable X11 visuals

I checked out the source code (http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SDL12/src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c?sortby=date) from libsdl.org and can't figure out what I can do to fix the problem. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

andysimmons
04-12-2003, 07:02 PM
bump...

endoalpha
04-12-2003, 07:41 PM
Recode your vnc server and viewer to include SDL layer and GLX. Not practical in the least, unless you have a two way gigabit connection.

andysimmons
04-12-2003, 08:54 PM
I was afraid you'd say that....thanks anyway:)