Sorry, seriously rusty and slightly hungover but after I enter cd /home/osmc/dispmanx_vnc-master/
sudo chmod +x makeit
./makeit
I get the error message cd /home/osmc/dispmanx_vnc-master/ : No such file or directory.
All and any help would be gratefully received
yeah, the makeit script is looking for /home/osmc/dispmanx_vnc-master/ folder
but you have the vncserver your trying to compile in a different folder.
Either edit the makeit script and change the path to where your vncserver is, or just make the folder requested (/home/osmc/dispmanx_vnc-master/) and move the vncserver in there and try again.
Okay, soā¦
Why would it not be in that folder?
Why when I change directories to home (cd /home) and I try the āls -lā command I only get āosmcā and I can not cd /osmc, that just gets me back to : No such file or directory.
I feel really dumb today. I really need to get back into this!
(Quick edit: Thank you for the speedy response, on a Sunday no less, it is much appreciated.)
Try cd osmc (NO slash)
0r cd /home/osmc (With slash)
The slash causes it to seek directories from the root of the drive, no slash it uses current folder as root
Thank you! That got the ball rolling. Once I could list the directories I could see the file hadnāt actually unpacked, doh!
So now Iāve got it unpacked, got it up and running and can access the command line from my PC but (thereās always a but!), Iāve got this line of values at the bottom that wonāt stop counting up, then resetting
What have I done now?!
hehehe that means the service is running 
Thats the vnc serverā¦it doesnt quit to prompt. You can Ctrl+C to exit it.
Now if you make it run on startup you are all doneā¦It will automatically run on boot, and wont eat any resources until you join a session with vnc client. After you quit it will go back to āidleā and wait for the next connection
I was guessing thatās what is was but didnāt want to do anything for fear of fouling up itās operation.
As I mentioned, very rusty, just getting back into linux again. Mildly annoyed with myself Iāve let so much slip. I think Iāll change my PC back to linux (or at the very least a duel boot) as practice and repetition are the only ways to learn!
As ever, Iām blown away by the community resources and responses, makes the steep learning curve this dozy old plumber is facing a lot easier to climb.
hehehe although i dont consider myself old (36) imagine doing all that with a dial up modem back in the day. Now with the help of forums/internet i think you can even build a nuclear reactor in your garage 
(http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/) (yes you can btw. ahahaha)
LMAO! What a time to be alive!
I can remember the joys of dial up. The first recording studio set up I had was a 1040STe! You used to know the name of every cracker out there for getting software to eh, test, but totally pay for later!
And Iām sorry to say buddy but youāre old. Go ask a 20 year old. Donāt even ask. Just hang out near a bunch of collage students. The other day my friends niece asked us who The Beastie Boys where 
Lolā¦tell her i was at their concert once 
Well at least soon enough youāll be able to ask your niece how to do linux stuff, or how to plug in your usb implant and start the installation software on the right side of your brain. (hahaha)
āsudo modprobe evdevā worked for me, thanks!
āsudo modprobe evdevā should do it, worked for me.
I had to change
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dispmanx_vncserver
to
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dispman_vncserver
But otherwise this seems to be working for me. Thanks!
Well, something doesnāt seem to be working right. Kodi is fully booted up and Iām watching a video. Hereās what Iām seeing with VNC:
Hi!
Iām following the tutorial step by step but the only thing I get is what follows
It gets stucks there and seems not to work. Any idea?
Thanks in advance!
hmmm thats weird, it doesnt show anything after ./makeit ā¦it should compile the server there.
Delete your dispmanx folder there and try this instead : GitHub - patrikolausson/dispmanx_vnc: VNC Server for Raspberry PI using dispmanx
Build with āmakeā inside the new folder. You should be seeing the compiler building the app.
If that works, iāll fix the 1st post.
Thank you for your quick reply. Once Iāll have tried Iāll come back.
Iām back.
I follow these steps:
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential rbp-userland-dev-osmc libvncserver-dev libconfig+Ā±dev
sudo wget https://github.com/patrikolausson/dispmanx_vnc/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip -d /home/osmc/
rm master.zip
cd /home/osmc/dispmanx_vnc-master/
./configure ā There is no such fileā¦
make
make install
And what I get is the following:
What Iām doing wrong?
Thanks once again.
There is no make installā¦ Its just make. In that directory do an ls. You should have a file there called dispmanx_vncserver. Thats the vnc server.
If you type now ./dispmanx_vncserver youāll see it runningā¦and you can connect from your pc to the pi now. 
But lets make that something that autostarts after reboot. If you executed the script press Ctrl+C to stop the server and do the following:
cp dispmanx_vncserver /usr/bin
chmod +x /usr/bin/dispmanx_vncserver
sudo modprobe evdev
cp dispmanx_vncserver.conf.sample /etc/dispmanx_vncserver.conf
vi /etc/dispmanx_vncserver.conf
Now in this editor youāll see the serversā password and frame rate. If you want a password set it up here. I have my framerates at 23. You can start editing the file by pressing i , once you are doneā¦press Esc then type :qw to save and exit. If you made a mistake then type :q! to force exit and then try again.
After all that we need to make the server a system service so it loads on boot. Do the following:
vi /etc/systemd/system/dispmanx_vncserver.service
And copy/paste this text there (dont forget to press i first) :
[Unit]
Description=VNC Server
After=network-online.target mediacenter.service
Requires=mediacenter.service
[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=30
Nice=15
User=root
Group=root
Type=simple
ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdev
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dispmanx_vncserver
KillMode=process
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Again, save and exit the file. Then do :
systemctl start dispmanx_vncserver.service
systemctl enable dispmanx_vncserver.service
systemctl daemon-reload
Thats itā¦the vnc server now will autorestart on boot.
Edit: I cant edit my first postā¦cause the editor wont let me post the thread in the HowTo sectionā¦can a mod please tell me how to do it ?
It worked like a charm! Thank you very much!