Re: unified patches not working

[Peter Byström <peter.bystrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone got an NT4 TS to lend? all I need is a "guest" account. I wont need to be
able to do anything, except logon.

eric perhaps?

//

peter



Eric Newman wrote:

> Here are my results from various patches:
>
> All of the following are using -4
> 18-3: mangled graphics, crash after logon and doing anything.
> 18-1: same
> 17-2: same
> 16-1: same
> 15-1: same
> 14-2: immediate crash before logon. window opens, closes with crash.
>
> I finally got it to work on rdesktop-unified-patch12, after setting
> BYTES_PER_PIXEL to 4 in rdesktop.h. This is all cool... but I was one of
> the ones having the refresh problems with my rdesktop window, and would
> like the redraw hack that was recently posted. :-) Unfortunately, that
> patch is applied to rdesktop-1.0.0 that has already been patched with
> rdesktop-unified-patch16-1. I guess I could examine all files involved
> and figure it out, but these latest patches need to be fixed anyway...
>
> Thanks a lot for your time and effort!
>
> Eric
>
> Peter Bystrom wrote:
> >
> > did you try the -4 switch?
> > I don't have an NT 4 TS setup since a while back so I can't test it myself,
> > however I have had indications that it works with this switch.
> > did you use the switch  and yet it didn't work? try and figure out the
> > highest patch level that can successfully connect to an nt4 server and I'll
> > figure out what has gone wrong asap.
> > old patches are in http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/history
> > best regards,
> > peter
> >
> > Eric Newman wrote:
> >
> > > I've tried applying the unified patches from
> > > http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/ to rdesktop, and it stops
> > > working. The pixmaps in the logon screen are all mangled, and once I
> > > logon, it just crashes. So now I can't use a patched rdesktop, because I
> > > can't seem to find the older patches. I'm assuming this has to do with
> > > me using terminal server from NT4? Any help would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > >