I am trying to get WinVNC to work on a Win 2k box

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, David Overstreet wrote:

> I got it! It appears that if Win2K does not recognize a video card (line a
> matrox G-400 it will load the standard VGA driver. This driver can not
> change to a 1024x768 resolution, which is necessary for VNC to display on a
> remote machine.

That's not true.  WinVNC will remote (almost) any screen resolution.  The
problem is that the standard VGA driver is the same one used in Win98,
which is broken.  The standard VGA driver for NT works fine.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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