Re: 8-BIT RESOLUTION ONLY

Yeah, I'd have better luck moving a mountain.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beaumont, Kevin" <[email protected]>
> To: "'San Te'" <[email protected]>, "Adilson Oliveira" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [rdesktop-users] 8-BIT RESOLUTION ONLY
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:11:58 +0100
> 
> 
> It's most likely a Microsoft thing, then, I'd say.  Although chances of them
> actually fixing it are slim to none I'd imagine, unless you've got a decent
> sized agreement with MS.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of San Te
> Sent: 12 April 2007 19:45
> To: Adilson Oliveira
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] 8-BIT RESOLUTION ONLY
> 
> 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.
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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