<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Tom, Have you tried doing it remote from an XP box? Try to eliminate whether its RDP in general or a linux based issue. And this questions from personal experience, it is working on the host server right ;-) It happens, I'm learning to assume nothing. Hope it helps narrow it down. Levi On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:30 -0400, Tom Wolfe wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Hi Levi, thanks for the lead... I tried it in 32-bit, full-screen mode with the latest update to the Remote Desktop Client, and LAN/100Mbps selected in the "Experience" sectino. Still the same error. Regards, Tom Wolfe On Fri, 18 May 2007, Levi Kemp wrote: > This may be too simple still, but are you running rdesktop in a window > or full screen? > > Levi > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:33 -0400, Tom Wolfe wrote: > > > Hi Rob, I tried that already (for a moment I thought, this is too easy) > > but to no avail, Tom > > > > > > On Thu, 17 May 2007, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > There's an option to set the color depth for remote desktop connections. > > > On the command line, it would be -a 16 or -a 24 for the "better" > > > settings. > > > > > > In the "Terminal Server Client" gui, it's on the "Display" tab. > > > > > > Maybe the software is detecting this setting somehow. > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:44:16PM -0400, Tom Wolfe wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > Our school recently made the rash decision to purchase Scholastic's Read > > > > 180 Enterprise Edition. I figured, OK I can deal with this, the K12LTSP > > > > workstations can use rdesktop to access the Read 180 client as they do > > > > with Scholastic's SRI, etc. > > > > > > > > But Scholastic seems to have outwitted me on this one: when logged on via > > > > Remote Desktop, I try to launch the Read 180 client and I get an error to > > > > the effect of "This system does not meet the requirement for video > > > > display". ^&*#^$&#!! Well that's ridiculous. I imagine that somehow Read > > > > 180 sees the Remote Desktop video as being inadequate. I contacted > > > > Scholastic and all they can say is "Remote Desktop is not one of the > > > > supported configurations for our Help Desk". > > > > > > > > Anyone have any suggestions on how to outwit this thing? If I can't access > > > > Read 180 then it will be a serious blow to the viability of my linux labs, > > > > which number 5 right now and total 60 workstations, and growing. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Tom Wolfe > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > K12OSN mailing list > > > > <A HREF="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</A> > > > > <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > > > > For more info see <<A HREF="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > K12OSN mailing list > > <A HREF="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</A> > > <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > > For more info see <<A HREF="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>