Re: SUSE 10 and rdesktop: Color problem

bpanders71@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
I've just installed today an old machine with SUSE 10 at 800x600 to
connect to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server for one of our remote
offices.  Of course, after preaching all the benfits of LInux, I hear
back a couple hours later that in rdesktop all the colors have changed
(blue is pink, white is brown, etc.) and basically most text is
illegible.  I've been testing SUSE 10 and rdesktop for over a month now
on various machines, and have seen this problem from time to time, but
the colors will always revert to normal after a few minutes time.
Today apparently not so.

I've searched groups to come to only four conclusions:

1) the screen power management may have set this off
2) this older computer may not be able to handle anything better than
640x480 (although it was running at 1280x1024 on my monitor at my desk
just fine)
3) the video card may need upgrading
4) the monitor may not be able to handle the resolution (although it
handles win2k and rdp 5.2 at a resolution greater than 800x600 just
fine, so I might rule this one out, maybe)

I'm using rdesktop <server> -f  to connect.  I've read the man, but am
not sure if any of the -b, -a, -P, or -C switches (or combination
thereof) will alleviate the problem (I cannot seem to duplicate on
another similar machine).  Since I don't see the problem, I can't
determine if any of the options change things.  For what it's worth, If
I remote control to the machine from within terminal services, or
connect to the desktop via VNC, I see a normal desktop.

Any ideas?

Thanks-
Brian

You could try rdesktop -a32 -f <server>

I've had no problems using rdesktop.
.

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