[FreeNX-kNX] nxagent failure on FC5

[Esme]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:33, Alastair Johnson wrote:
> After running successfully with FreeNX 0.4.x on FC3 for some time I am not
> trying to get things going with FC5 but without much success. I keep
> getting: 1004 Error: NX Agent exited with exit status 1.

Hello!  I'm new to the list. :-)

I'm getting the exact same problem on Suse 10.1  I've tried searching the web 
for a solution, and the only potentially hopeful lead I've found is that 
apparently  between nx server and nxagent one of them gives up trying to 
connect after 10 seconds by default, which is not long enough for the other 
one on a lot of setups.  I gather that someone's submitted a patch so that 
one can manually adjust the delay allowed before the one side times out, but 
have no idea whether that's been accepted. 

And that, I'm afraid is about the limit of my knowledge.  I confess I don't 
really understand this stuff, but having been pleasantly surprised at how 
well VNC worked on my LAN (I can now use my powerful but noisy desktop in the 
spare room from my much quieter mini-ITX in my room), and having heard that 
FreeNX is even better and can pass through sound as well, I decided to give 
it a try.  It'd be so nice to be able to play games too resource-intensive 
for this PC without the roar of my desktop PCs cooling fans all the time!

In case it matters, I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 on this mini-ITX (600Mhz CPU, 246MB 
RAM), and Suse10.1 on my desktop (AMD 2600+ with 512MB RAM and a geforce3 
graphics card).

I really can;t understand why this isn't better documented - there seems to be 
bits and bobs of instructions for it dotted all over the place, but nothing 
in one coherent lump!

Esme