The vnc.so module isn't working under Fedora 8.
Fedora 8 uses a mix of Xorg 7.2 and 7.3. The key component is actually the xorg-x11-server* packages, which are version 1.3. The module should work with this version of the X Server - it's X Server 1.4 and later (included with Xorg 7.3 and later) which gives us problems, and is not supported.You can find out what version of the xorg-x11-server* packages are on your machine by listing all of the installed xorg items;
yum list installed|grep xorg|grep 7
If the vnc.so module is still not working, you can find out why by checking the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, which will probably show:
(II) LoadModule: "vnc"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module vnc
(II) UnloadModule: "vnc"
(EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (module does not exist, 0)
The issue here is likely to be that the X Server in Fedora 8 can't find the module as it is looking in its default location for modules, which is /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions. Our module is installed into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions by default. You're advised to create a symbolic link so that the X Server is able to find it on startup:
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/vnc.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/vnc.so
Additionaly, on Fedora 8, there are some known problems when specifying the VNC module on its own - adding a modules section with the Fedora 8 X Server causes certain default modules to not be loaded. We suggest adding the following lines to the newly-created *Module* section:
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
Load "dri2"
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4th of February, 2011
