Bug 59677 - stuck on 4-bit colors and only 800x600 resolution
Summary: stuck on 4-bit colors and only 800x600 resolution
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Spice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: win32 qxl xddm (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Spice Bug List
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Reported: 2013-01-21 20:09 UTC by Zeeshan Ali
Modified: 2013-03-18 16:10 UTC (History)
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device manager showing properties of QXL device/driver (45.61 KB, text/plain)
2013-01-21 20:09 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		Details
more details on QXL device/driver (35.04 KB, image/png)
2013-01-21 20:10 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		Details
Libvirt configuration xml of the domain in question (5.53 KB, text/xml)
2013-01-21 20:11 UTC, Zeeshan Ali 		Details
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Description Zeeshan Ali 2013-01-21 20:09:10 UTC 
Created attachment 73404 [details]
device manager showing properties of QXL device/driver

I installed QXL driver using spice-guest-tools-0.3.exe and restarted my machine, only to find it running now in 4-bit colors and 800x600 resolution. I thought I can change it from display properties but 'Color quality' combo has only 4-bit colors option. Also I can't move the slider of the resolution either.

Attaching screenshots of what device manager has to say about QXL. Will also add libvirt XML of the domain in question.
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2013-01-21 20:10:14 UTC 
Created attachment 73405 [details]
more details on QXL device/driver
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2013-01-21 20:11:48 UTC 
Created attachment 73406 [details]
Libvirt configuration xml of the domain in question
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2013-01-26 17:12:59 UTC 
I was able to reproduce this with older spice-guest-tools-0.2.exe as well.
Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2013-02-07 23:21:32 UTC 
Now that I used Windows XP professional, the drivers install and work like a charm.
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2013-02-07 23:22:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Now that I used Windows XP professional, the drivers install and work like a
> charm.

I think I forgot to mention that it was XP home edition that was able to reproduce this issue on.
Comment 6 Christophe Fergeau 2013-02-08 09:14:45 UTC 
And can you still reproduce with WinXP Home now?
Comment 7 Zeeshan Ali 2013-03-14 01:29:13 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> And can you still reproduce with WinXP Home now?

It seems it was some broken windows XP that I should have never used. I'm unable to reproduce this on a new XP home edition ISO and some other bugs I saw also seem gone.
Comment 8 David Jaša 2013-03-18 16:10:52 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > And can you still reproduce with WinXP Home now?
> 
> It seems it was some broken windows XP that I should have never used. I'm
> unable to reproduce this on a new XP home edition ISO and some other bugs I
> saw also seem gone.

Note that you have to have SP3 installed on Windows XP for QXL driver to work properly.

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