Re: DVD player for Alpha?
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
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