Error message Received

Jonathan Morton chromi "at" cyberspace.org
Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:22:29 +0000


>I have received the following error in vnc after installing it on one of my
>users pc's. "VNC Desktop current display is plainer not chunky. WinVNC can
>not be used with this graphics device drive." We are using Windows 98 and 95
>as an operating system. Do anyone have a solution for me on this?

Upgrade the deivce driver for the video card.  That's pretty much what that
message says.  The "standard VGA or SVGA" driver in Windows uses a pixel
format incompatible with VNC, but most "proper" drivers use the "chunky"
format which is compatible.

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

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