From: Wade D. <wad...@go...> - 2007-07-03 07:27:12
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Hi Constantin, Thanks for your help. I have an ATI MOBILITY FireGL V5200 graphics card running Driver Packaging Version 8.353.1.1-070508a-047760C-ATI . This is the latest driver. On occasion the TightVNC viewer does work, but I can close it and then re-open it without changing any settings and I get the black screen. I changed the color depth from 32 bit to 16 bit and now it seems to work consistently. This still leaves a couple of questions. Why does the RealVNC viewer always work and in either color depth? Why did the TightVNC viewer work on rare occasions with 32 bit color depth? Thanks, Wade On 7/3/07, Constantin Kaplinsky <co...@ti...> wrote: > > Hello, > > >>>>> Wade Dugas wrote: > > > I recently installed Tight VNC 1.3.9 on Suse SLES 9. I am able to > > connect to the server with Real VNC Viewer E4.2.7, but am unable to > > do so with Tight VNC Viewer 1.3.9. I get a black screen and an error > > Window - "Error creating local image of screen." > > This is an error the Windows viewer shows when CreateCompatibleBitmap() > function fails for some reasons. I guess the reason may be some > non-standard screen mode or buggy video driver. > > Does changing display resolution or color depth take any effect? > > -- > With Best Wishes, > Constantin > > |