Bad Display on XP from VNC on SUSE 9

[Paul Jansen Van Rensburg]

Hi James,

I have the following software installed on the LINUX machine:

XFree86-Xvnc:	4.3.99.902-43.22
kdenetwork3-vnc:	3.2.1-50.7
tightvnc:		1.2.9-181.1

As I am not a LINUX professional, please instruct on what software you
would like me to upgrade.
I am assuming the tightvnc but please confirm.

I am using the free VNC Viewer. Is there a free VNC Server edition for
LINUX available?

Regards

-----Original Message-----
From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com]
Sent: 20 April 2005 12:44 PM
To: Paul Jansen Van Rensburg; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Bad Display on XP from VNC on SUSE 9

Paul,

It sounds like your server is on a relatively slow connection (from the
viewer's point of view), so that it's using 8-bit colour.  TightVNC was
based on the old VNC 3 system, which didn't use a very good 8-bit colour
palette for low-colour mode.

Have you tried upgrading to VNC 4 at server & viewer?

It may be that there is some other problem with your setup, of course,
but
the use of 8-bit colour is the first thing to check...

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Paul Jansen
> Van Rensburg
> Sent: 20 April 2005 08:12
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Bad Display on XP from VNC on SUSE 9
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running tightVNC 1.2.9-181.1 that came with SUSE.
>
> The viewer is V 4.1.1 on XP.
>
> I can open the VNC viewer session from XP and see the KDE
> menus but the
> display is horrible and almost unreadable
>
> The headings has a pinkish look and the background of a
> terminal session
> is so dark brownish that you cannot read it.
>
>
>
> I have started the VNC server on the Linux box using all the possible
> variations of depth, pixelformat and geometry hoping it would make a
> difference - but it didn't.
>
> I looked in the VNC log file in the .VNC directory but there is no
> significant error.
>
> If I connect from this XP machine to a HP or DEC machine, I have no
> problem and the display is fine.
>
> If I connect from any other PC to this LINUX box, I get the same bad
> result so I assume it is something that I am missing on the VNCSERVER
> side.
>
> Maybe someone knows better to make changes in the .Xresources,
> vncserver, Xrdb, twm or xstartup files that might help ??????
>
> Any suggestions will be welcome.
>
>
>
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