Hello everyone,
I took back my really old by still working thinkpad 600E with puppy linux 4.21 retro. (yes, everything is old : pentium II, 128 MB ram, and a tricky sound card which only works with retro and a lot of hacks).
I wanted to use it as a light client for remote desktop (to my main computer, windows 10 pro with local wifi) with sound (so, no vnc).
It seems that anydesk could be perfect, but I wasn’t able to run the pet (http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=116395). I keep getting no such file or directory for libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 . So, I put libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0 and libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0 in usr/lib and lib, and along anydesk bin, and I still get the same error at runtime (using the console, clicking the icon doesn’t send the message).
Meanwhile, I managed to compile rdesktop v1.8.6.
I fact not. I compiled it with
./configure --disable-smartcard and --disable-credssp
Disable –disable-credssp is annoying because I have to deactivate on windows "network level authentication" which I think is bad, but not too much.
Worse, I was never able to compile the real source : I had to patch ssl.c because when running make I got X509_PUBKEY_set0_param() and X509_PUBKEY_get0_param reference error.
I believe it has something to do with openssl and so I updated open ssl source with a recent pet with no result, even by forcing the header directly to the correct openssl files…
So, I removed theses two functions from the code and it seams to run, for now… (I probably created something really bad inside SSL)
I made a pet of it if someone is interested...
Surprisingly, rdesktop runs not so badly on my old computer. The only troubles are that I don’t have sound in youtube, and video in large windows have no sound but noise (if the player has a reduce windows, let say 2 square centimeters, it "works"). So, no video on RDP.
Maybe it’s a hardware limit, maybe it’s because rdesktop only has RDP 5.
So my questions are :
* is anyone able to compile something like RDP for puppy 4.21 retro ?
* rdesktop ?
* freerdp may be better as it has RDP 6, and maybe less video problems.
* anydesk with the dependencies ? (maybe the best ?)
* or to point out what I missed.
Thanks !
modern remote desktop for puppy linux 4.21 retro !!!
modern remote desktop for puppy linux 4.21 retro !!!
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Hello,
I have solved most of the problems with rdesktop (sound and video using too much resources). Here is my small how-to use rdesktop :
1) setup both computers on the same LAN (i use wifi).
2) launch from the console
(remplace REMOTEIP, USER and PASSWORD with the IP of the remote computer, remote pass and user if you don't wan't to do it manually).
-r sound:local:oss is some technical magic which solved my hardware issues (i tried something like sound:alsa before). It may be hardware dependent.
-k fr is the french keyboard ; you may remove it for qwerty.
-x 0x81 use more bandwidth but gives font smoothing ; a must-have.
I have solved most of the problems with rdesktop (sound and video using too much resources). Here is my small how-to use rdesktop :
1) setup both computers on the same LAN (i use wifi).
2) launch from the console
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rdesktop REMOTEIP -r sound:local:oss -f -k fr -x 0x81 -u USER -p PASSWORD
-r sound:local:oss is some technical magic which solved my hardware issues (i tried something like sound:alsa before). It may be hardware dependent.
-k fr is the french keyboard ; you may remove it for qwerty.
-x 0x81 use more bandwidth but gives font smoothing ; a must-have.