Re: 8-BIT RESOLUTION ONLY

"San Te" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Discovered something new.

When I drop the resolution from 1920x1200 to 1280x1200 the thin client connects at the correct color depth, 16-bits.  Anything higher that the 1280x1200 and its back to 8-bit. Again, this worked fine before the Windows 2003 SP2 update.

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> From: "Adilson Oliveira" <[email protected]>
> To: "San Te" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] 8-BIT RESOLUTION ONLY
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:58:18 -0300
> 
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> San Te escreveu:
> > Thanks Adilson, I went ahead and tried that and had it dump the
> > output to a log.
> >
> > I'm getting this message: WARNING: Remote desktop does not support
> > colour depth 16; falling back to 8
> >
> > This is kind of misleading since the server is setup to allow the
> > higher resolution and other thin clients are connecting with the
> > correct resolution.
> 
> Ah! There you have it.
> It's reporting that your server does not allow to use 16 bpp that's why
> it's falling back to 8bpp so, it's not a matter of resolution but color
> depth. You should check if this specific session for some reason, if not
> allowed to use this color depth. Perhaps some limitation on the RDP
> configuration or policy.
> Maybe it's a rdesktop bug but, from what I remember from the code, this
> testing is quite straight: it asks the server about it's capabilities
> and the server answers.
> 
> []s
> 
> Adilson.
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