[K12OSN] Scholastic Read 180 stumping me

[Tom Wolfe]

My testing has mainly been from an XP box -- I figure stay within Windows
until it works, then push my luck Linux rdesktop. But I've also tried
rdestkop with identical results.

And yes, for what it's worth it works on the host server, and it works
from a client installed locally on an XP machine. So it looks to me like a
problem between RDP, RDP/Terminal Server, and the fact that the software
was not designed right in the first place.

Thanks again,
Tom Wolfe

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Levi Kemp wrote:

> 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:
>
> > 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
> > > > > >
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