Did you noticed this message when starting vnc?
/home/user # qchroot /home/user/MyDocs/bt5/bt5.img /mnt/bt5/
..stripping trailing slash...
Mounting...
using image file: /home/user/MyDocs/bt5/bt5.img
fs type is img
Don't know img: Using ext2 file system
Using ext2 file system
mounting /home/user/MyDocs/bt5/bt5.img on loop
.../home/user/MyDocs/bt5/bt5.img mounted on loop0
.
..
...
....
mount: mounting /var/run/pulse on /mnt/bt5/var/run/pulse failed: No such file or directory
Everything set up, running chroot...
[root@chroot: /]export USER=root
[root@chroot: /]vncserver -geometry 800x470
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_US",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "Mr_Pingu:1" in "add" command

New 'X' desktop is Mr_Pingu:1

Starting applications specified in /home/user/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/user/.vnc/Mr_Pingu:1.log

yes, but it still seems to work fine for me.

I was getting locale "warnings" too when I apt-get install xserver-xephyr'd.

Do you run it from android to prevent keyboard issue?

Also it doesnt utillise the inbuilt swap so when RAM is full it just crashes =/

But the strangest part is still: the keyboard problem

I've actually not been using the qchroot method, I've been using the bootbt script, modified as detailed on my blog - https://seventhoctober.net/2011/05/b...on-nokia-n900/

You might trying doing it that way. It shouldn't make any difference, but maybe it does.

For getting rid of those locale messages, maybe there's something that helps here:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...&postcount=107

You can get rid of this error messages by typing this inside the chrooted image before starting vnc:
I did not find anything usefull yet to get that keyboard up and running.
I tested a Xorg.conf, used the whole /lib/modules from maemo, every time it ends up with strange symbols.

After looking at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15388, I found that the following fixes mine:

locale-gen
export LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

i dont mind about getting those errors, has long has backtrack works, the problem is that when i open a terminal window inside backtrack i get all kind of stuff, including those errorrs:

LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_PAPER = "en_US",
LC_ADDRESS = "en_US",
LC_MONETARY = "en_US",
LC_NUMERIC = "en_US",
LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US",
LC_MESSAGES = "en_US",
LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US",
LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US",
LC_TIME = "en_US",
LC_NAME = "en_US",
LANG = "en_US"

with my language of course, are you guys referring to those? or when mounted?

even so, for the people that have problem with the swap, you can hex edit the iso emmc file to get a lot more swap memory and app install memory, i did that when i flashed, i gues you guys wont flash but its the easiest way to get more mem wihtout the trouble of gparted and otther partition apps

cheerrs

right there with ya. i found a thread back in the archives that semi documents the keyboard problem on ubuntu 9.10 arm but the modules and xorg on that thread dont work haha. this is driving me nuts but also keeping me occupied... so i guess i cant complain