Re: SeamlessRDP always falls back to 8-bit colour

Ross Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dual head cards should work fine with RDP, but graphics drivers have been seen to cause a number of problems recently (with plain RDP, at least).  It's probably worth updating your drivers if you're running old ones.

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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:07:56 +0100
> Subject: Re: [rdesktop-users] SeamlessRDP always falls back to 8-bit colour
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> On Monday 13 October 2008, Tristan Miller wrote:
>> I have found that I am able to connect at 16-bit colour without problems
>> using pretty much any combination of command-line options.  However,
>> whenever I try to use the -A option, the connection is made at 8-bit
>> colour and the following message is printed to the console:
>>
>> WARNING: Remote desktop does not support colour depth 24; falling back
>> to 8
> 
> I just tried this on another machine with identical software and I was able 
> to connect at 16-bit colour.  One difference between the two machines is 
> that the one that doesn't work has a dual-head setup.  Could this be the 
> source of the problem?
> 
> Regards,
> Tristan
> 
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