Re: DVD player for Alpha?

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie> writes:

> No.  The X server is in 24 bpp.  All I know is that the NT's screen
> displayed by rdesktop is in 8 bit mode (from the NT's point of
> view).  Not being knowledgeable about the X protocol, I have no clue
> how rdesktop goes about it - whether by asking the X server to
> simulate the 8 bit paletted mode just for the rdesktop window, or by
> doing the simulation itself.

I don't think you can ask X to do that.

> It is quite possible that the 8 bit issue is totally irrelevant and
> there is something else rdesktop does that breaks Xv...

That seems more likely. Perhaps it somehow grabs video RAM, or it
floods the server with X requests, triggering races...

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	Falk