#1:search mail list; #2:Color depth problem

[Shing-Fat Fred Ma]

Hello,

The mailing list was searchable when hosted by
AT&T.  Could that capability be made available
now?  (This is addressed more to the vanilla
VNC forum, as I already asked about TightVNC).

The problem I was searching for is that the
viewer always seems establish an 8bpp
connection, even though I specify "-depth 24".

I'm using solaris 8, TightVNC 1.2.2 (still) for
both viewer and server, on separate sun
boxes.  I start the server with "-depth 24" and
look at the log file, no information about color
depth.  I then start the viewer with "-depth 24"
and the viewer response says:

     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 16 green 8 blue 0
     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 248 exact BGR233 colours out of 256

New messages then get written to the  log file
on the server side, confirming the 8bpp connection.

I don't know why the viewer is ignoring my
request for 24bpp, but it happens regardless of
whether I use ssh (i.e. -VIA) or whether I use
hextile encoding versus the default of "copyrect tight".

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Fred
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Fred Ma
Department of Electronics
Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada     K1S 5B6
fma "at" doe.carleton.ca
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