On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Patterson, Ross wrote:
> True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6
> Can't cope with 24 bits-per-pixel. Sorry.
>
> My heart goes out to the wee beastie, there are days I can't cope either,
> but the message isn't too informative and the source only increased my
> confusion. And, of course, it isn't in the FAQ (why is it always that *my*
> questions aren't in the FAQs? ;-) )
>
> Can anyone tell me what's really going on, and maybe how to get past it?
The machine running the VNC client has a 24-bit colour display. The
viewer can't draw to such a display - you either need to move down to
16-bit or up to 32-bit colour.
Cheers,
James "Wez" Weatherall
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Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK - Tel : 343000
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