[Xen-users] Re: Some more differences between fc7 and fc8

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 09 February 2008 06:54:04 pm you wrote:
> My remaining problem is I can't change the video resolution. Gnome's  
> system-config-display' says the 'Xen Virtual Frame Buffer' is stuck at
> 800x600 and millions of colors. There is no other choice for resolution,
> and even picking thousands of colors, or picking the vesa driver results in
> X not starting. (Yeah, I know, vesa probably needs a real video card.) But
> the colors are ugly & garish, and highlighted sections of the screen are
> impossible to read. Anybody found a way to get higher resolution and/or
> better colors? Thanx.

This appears to be related to color options in vncviewer. Tightvnc's viewer 
works with the '-bgr233' option, but other viewers default to something like 
rgb565, and are ignoring any changes to number of bits per pixel, with no 
option for bgr vs. rgb. This is true of fedora's vnc-4.1.2-23.fc8 viewer. It 
works correctly in virt-manager's viewer the first time, but if you close the 
window & reopen it, you get the color mismatch.

The real question tho' is why doesn't this work out of the box?

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