Re: Video Hook Driver?

Leonard Isham <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.vnc.ultravnc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at http://forum.ultravnc.net/

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:45:52 -0800, Georges Berenger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at http://forum.ultravnc.net/
> 
> Yes, the video driver is essential, especially if the PC you are controlling has a lot of screen activity, like say, meters going up & down.
> On a LAN, without the driver, I don't get any meter movement. On the same LAN, or over a wireless connection, meters are very fluid! That's the very reason why I picked the Ultr@vnc server over any other server. It also beat's TightVNC's video driver hands down, with a much lower bandwidth usage in the same heavy graphic-use conditions, with a ratio 5 or so.
> 
> That being said...
> 
> I have had times when the server got "stuck", after a wireless connection broke. I can't connect to the server anymore, though I have reconnected at the TCP/IP level. So I try to quit & restart the server, but in the case I am talking about, this doesn't work. Then I try to kill the server using the TaskManager. Doing so, and only doing so, I often got good old blue screens. This is not a corner case: I had it happen to me without looking to reproduce it at least 5 times...
> 
> Does anyone have an idea as of why killing the VNC Server with the TaskManager could ever cause a blue screen?...
> 

The only way I have ever been able to fix a hung Ultr@VNC is to use
pskill from psutils (www.sysinternals.com) to kill the process.  Then
I use psservice to restart it.  Never bluescreened on me.

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.


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