If I want to add VNC I need to do an apt-get update before installing.

Will the apt-get update break anything in R5B7? Don't want to do it and have to do another install!

The apt-get update won't break anything. It's the apt-get install that you need to be afraid of. As for that, try it. It will tell you what it wants to do and ask for confirmation. If you see it removing packages it shouldn't or asking for lots of new/updated stuff that it "depends on" say no way! Then you're probably looking at building from source...

Sorry it is the apt-get install. My bad... I got the info from this thread http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8520 and it worked ok when I was playing with R50A30.2 but I got a kinda working system with B7 and I didn't want to destroy it.

I'll look into building from source.

Thanks.

I just installed x11vnc on R5B7 and it worked great!

There is a good howto on x11vnc on the KnoppmythWIKI

Just proceed step one with apt-get update

http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=x11vncHowTo

Hi,

I used apt-get install yesterday for VNC on R5B7 and so far so good.

Victor

WARNING!!! WARNING!!! WARNING!!!

I did exactly as recommended here
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=x11vncHowTo
on R5B7 and it totally trashed my system. Why? because I didn't scroll down a few pages where an addendum sat warning you of this with a workaround thus (that I have tested and deffo works):-



For the curious if you DO NOT follow the above instructions the regular debian-unstable vnc install will attempt to update 100+ packages including xserver-xorg. It will deinstall your current x server and myth add-ons, you will panic and feel very sad, so don't do it. I have subsequently reinstalled myth R5B7 and created a script to do a lot of my personal alterations so in future I should hopefully be able to recreate my system in 2 hours from scratch. It's like practicing rifle stripping ala jarhead . I also plan to clone my drive once all is working as I did before, so if I ever trash it (very easy it seems) I will be OK.

I recoved one of my mythtv box's using the upgrade option on the cd , ( allowing that you did a backup )

did you read the comments on the http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=x11vncHowTo page about R5B7 ?

Why is the sources list pointing to the unstable section in the first place?

Becuase it's using debian's repositry. Debian unstable has recently become debian stable.

I fragged my mythbox for a fourth time trying to get VNC to work. I would just stop, but others state it works great.

I want to control what is displayed on my TV with my wireless laptop and VNC controlling my frontend. Is this possible, or will I only be able to get a pretty x-window session that is not what my frontend is displaying?

Please help. When I do the get-app install x11vnc it proceeds to install x11vnx, but then I'm prompted with a few questions. What are the answers to the three questions the x11vnc asks?