Re: rdesktop stops working with new video card
Tim Boyer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.rdesktop.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:12:14 +0000, Chris Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >On Saturday 07 Mar 2009, Tim Boyer wrote: >> I've been using rdesktop for years now, routinely using my Ubuntu laptop to >> rdp to my home and work XP systems. This morning, I'm unable to get to my >> home system. When I try to connect the screen flashes, then returns to the >> prompt. No error messages at all. I can still rdp to my work system, and >> I can VNC into the home system - just no rdp. >> >> The only thing I've changed since the last time I was able to successfully >> log on - last night - is that I put a GTX 260 video card into the home >> desktop. That's it - no OS upgrade; no new patches; nothing. I can't >> believe that would cause this, but it's the only change made. >> >> I'm not sure where to start debugging this - I can't find any errors in >> /ver/log/messages. A pointer in the right direction would be greatly >> appreciated. > >Have you tried running rdesktop from the command line - any error messages? > >--- >Chris Roberts > Chris - I usually use Terminal Services Client from Ubuntu, but the first thing I did when it stopped working is drop down to a prompt. rdesktop <work ip> works fine rdesktop <home server> returns Autoselected keyboard map en-us and then the prompt. That's all. -- tim boyer [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------