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Hi everyone,

My first post here. Love the forum! Got my Octane up and running earlier this year after 15 years in storage, big thanks to the wonderful Ian Mapleson. I also have an Indy and Indigo2 from many years back. And an incoming Onyx2 from Ian. 

I have set up a VNC connection so that I can access my Octane remotely. VNC works fine for non-OpenGL applications, but I was wondering if it is possible to get applications like Maya and Quake to work with VNC? 

I am running VNC via this command added to /var/X11/xdm/Xservers:

:5 secure /usr/nekoware/bin/Xvnc :5 -depth 24 -geometry 1600x1200 -rfbwait 120000 -rfbauth /usr/people/bard/.vnc/passwd -rfbport 5905 -alwaysshared 

I get the login screen and I can access my desktop as usual, but launching an application that uses OpenGL gives the following error:  Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display «:5:0».

Any ideas? 

Thanks,
Bård

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Hi

you can only do remote OGL app using rlogin on another irix box

Cheers

Eve

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Thanks for the info Eve! That explains a lot. I was able to get Maya running with remote desktop from Linux, but OGL didn't work well. Luckily I have a few other SGI's I can use to get it working. (Trying to access my SGI at the office from home)

Best,
Bård