> just picking up on a couple of your points,
> 
> On 2010/11/04 06:46, onteria wrote:
> > 
> > * Sound will be tricky, since I see lots of "alsa not found" messages
> > * spewing by. I'm not sure if KDE has some kind of sound server like
> > * arts that I can work on fixing the audio initialization there, then
> > * have everything else hook into the sound server. Otherwise I have to
> > * change over EVERYTHING to utilize the OpenBSD sound interface (I'm
> > * assuming sndio(7) is the best one to use?)
> 
> sndio(7) is the only one to use. alex has lots of help at
> http://caoua.org/sndio/tips.html
>
> (yes, www/faq/ports/specialtopics.html#Audio implies other options are
> still acceptable, this page could use an update).

Ah, thank you. I'll bookmark that and look over it when I get time.
 
> > * I can't get KDE to run in TightVNC, but I was able to get krfb to
> > * build for doing some kind of remote access for testing. Somewhat of a
> > * hack solution imho but one that works.
> 
> the TightVNC server is based on an ancient X server and not
> recommended, lots of things will have trouble with it.  x11vnc
> is probably your best option for a server at the moment (you
> can use it with Xvfb if you don't want to share a session with
> the real display hardware).
> 
> (if someone wants a challenge of porting a more integrated
> VNC/X server, I would suggest looking at TigerVNC).

Good to know it wasn't just me. That was driving me pretty insane. I'll
look at TigerVNC later to see if I can get it working. Thank you again
for this great info.

- Onteria

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