Problem with VNC Connect

[Jonathan Morton]

>> On 05:51 PM 01/04/2000 -0500, it would appear that Herbert Graf wrote:
>> > > >     I have installed VNC server on one machine and the client
>> > > on another,
>> > > >however on every attempt to connect to the server, the
>> server pops up a
>> > > >dialog saying "desktop is set to PLANAR, VNC requires CHUNKY" or
>> > > >something like that. What does that mean? I have tried using
>> a different
>> > > >video driver to no avail. Currently I am using the standard SVGA
>> > driver and
>> > > >standard SVGA monitor. Thanks for any assistance. TTYL
>> > >
>> > > Which OS are you using?  Linux, UNIX or Windows?
>> >
>> >         Win95A on both systems, TCP/IP is setup perfectly on
>> both systems and
>> >another remote control program I tried worked fine. TTYL
>>
>> What color depth is the client using?  Try increasing the color depth on
>> the client as high as it will go for the resolution you are using.  I've
>> only had this message appear after doing a Win98 install when the client
>> was temporarily set to use 16 colors by the setup routine.
>
>	That did the trick, the server is on a server where I had a video card
>capable of only 16 colors (didn't see a need for more on a server), threw in
>a new card, set it to 256 and it now works, strange it would require such a
>thing. Thank you for your time. TTYL

Yeah, it's all to do with the fact that the server has to read the video
memory and decode everything into something that can be understood by the
client.  The server is equipped to handle 8, 16 and 24-bit colour modes
(which have integer byte-per-pixel counts) but not less than that.

Given the number of Wintel boxes that potentially have to work with
SVGA-only video, someone might like to put in code that converts 16-colour
video into a standard 256-colour format?

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org  (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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