[K12OSN] Scholastic Read 180 stumping me

[Levi Kemp]

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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