From: Martin DiViaio <scatterbrained@usermail.com>
Reply-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] X server bpp 8
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:52:34 -0400 (EDT)
What version of rdesktop are you running? The latest version is 1.2.0. If
you are not running that, you should probably upgrade.
If your linux system has enough horsepower, you can run multiple instances
of X. Just switch to a text login prompt with <CTRL><ALT><F2>, login and
startx. The first X session will be on tty 8, DISPLAY 0:0 (<ALT><F8> from
a text tty, <CTRL><ALT><F8> from an X session) and the second will be on
tty 9, DISPLAY 0:1. Beware that some X apps are not DISPLAY aware and may
appear on the wrong X session.
The -bpp option to X is deprecated since XFree86 4.0 in favor of the
-depth option.
Rebuilding rdesktop from source has been mentioned previously. This may be
the way you should go. The build is fairly standard. The program itself is
very small.
If you are RPM bound, the tarball has a spec file in place for automatic
building. The tarball needs to be massaged to get it to work though.
Do the following to build an RPM:
tar xzf rdesktop-1.2.0.tar.gz
mv rdesktop-1.2.0 rdesktop
tar czf rdesktop.tgz rdesktop/
rpmbuild -ta rdesktop.tgz
I've personally used rdesktop since the beginning of August on X running
at 1600x1200 in 32 bit color. It's worked fine.
On the 15th day of October in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:03:23 -0400
> From: W. Chris Shank <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: [PLUG] X server bpp 8
>
> I'm trying to run rdesktop and it only runs in about 8 bit color. Anyone
> know how I can get this run a 16 bpp color map? here is what I get when
> I execute rdesktop:
>
> server bpp 8 client bpp 32 depth 24
>
> It seems my X server is only allowing 8 bpp.
>
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