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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: vnc client, 16 bit, strange colors when viewing a PV gue
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:06:13AM -0700, Pat Campbell wrote:
>
> Using tightVNC, the colors are messed up when viewing a PV guest running
> on a 3.2 hypervisor from a client system with a 16 bit deep display.
> virt-manager --> viewer works OK.
> Standalone virt-viewer and other VNC clients have bad colors.
>
> This problem is new with Xen 3.2 and the qemu xenfb code.
>
> As a short term fix I added a second macro in tools/ioemu/hw/xenfb.c to
> munge the colors from 32 bit to 16 bit based on an algorithm used by
> RealVNC. Patch I used is attached, not suggesting it be merged.
>
> Is anybody else seeing this problem?
>
> By the way, while looking at the original macro I think the last shift
> for blue should of used BRS instead if GRS. ( Changing that did not
> make the colors better. )
Yes, clearly that last GRS is bogus & should have been BRS.
> int col; \
> for (col = x ; col < w ; col++) { \
> *dst = (((*src >> RRS) & RM) << RLS) | \
> (((*src >> GRS) & GM) << GLS) | \
> - (((*src >> GRS) & BM) << BLS); \
> + (((*src >> BRS) & BM) << BLS); \
> src++; \
> dst++; \
> } \
> }
Note that there is also a colour shift problem in GTK-VNC (used by
virt-viewer & virt-manager) - you need latest GTK-VNC from the source
repo to get the fix. So you may have been seeing a cobmo of 2 bugs
Dan.
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