color issue in new vncviewer for X

[Mike Miller]

I'm using Solaris 2.6 and running the precompiled Solaris 2.5 binaries.
The Xvnc server is working great and everything looks good from a WinNT
vnxviewer.  I'm running the vncserver with a depth of 24.  The problem is
that I can't get the X vncviewer to show me all the colors.  It looks like
I'm getting a 256 color image.  I tried a few options on the command line
(e.g., -depth 24, -truecolour) but nothing helped.  This didn't used to
happen with the last version of X vncviewer.  (By the way -truecolour gave
a bizarre result with all colors translated in strange ways -- like red
instead of blue.)

Obviously, I'm doing something wrong.  Here's what appears on the screen
when I launch vncviewer:


# vncviewer -fullscreen -shared taxa:1

VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3)
Password: 
VNC authentication succeeded
Desktop name "mbmiller's X desktop (taxa:1)"
Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3
VNC server default format:
  32 bits per pixel.
  Most significant byte first in each pixel.
  True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 0 green 8 blue 16
Using default colormap and translating from BGR233.  Pixel format:
  8 bits per pixel.
  True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6
Got 242 exact BGR233 colours out of 256
Using 0 existing shared colours
Same machine: preferring raw encoding


And it seems no matter what I do, the following is found in the log:

14/09/99 19:59:21 Pixel format for client 128.206.45.83:
14/09/99 19:59:21   8 bpp, depth 8
14/09/99 19:59:21   true colour: max r 7 g 7 b 3, shift r 0 g 3 b 6


I hope someone has a clue!

Thanks in advance,

Mike


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Michael B. Miller, M.S., Ph.D., M.P.E.
Department of Psychology
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University of Missouri--Columbia
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e-mail: mbmiller "at" taxa.psyc.missouri.edu
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