**problems with DESQview/X PC running GRASS, XDPYINFO
Laxmi Prasad Musunur
mlp at forestry.auburn.edu
Thu Sep 17 13:00:10 EDT 1992
>| We're trying to run GRASS on a PC running DESQview.
>|The problems experienced with old xdriver:
>| 1. Vector maps (even color) can be displayed without any problem.
>|But
>| 2. When we try to display a raster map, it gives a bunch of error
>|messages like,
>| X Error (major opcode 72 -- XPutImage). and the monitor dies!!
>|
>|
>|Problems with new XDRIVER:(for GRASS running on a PC through DESQview)
>|
>| 1. When we start the monitor (d.mon start) it self it says
>| "Color: Can't set color 0"
>| 2. When we try to display a color vector map it doesn't use the
>|assigned color (infact no color can be displayed at all)
>|
>| 3. When we try to display a raster map the monitor dies saying
>| "Segmentation fault"
>|
>|Laxmi P. Musunur (LP)
>If you have the command xdpyinfo, run that and send the output from this
>command to the list. The GRASS XDRIVER assumes that the Default Visual
>is PsuedoColor, and I would like to see if that is true for you server.
>xdpyinfo is a command I use to dump a lot of info about the X Server
>and among this is info about all visuals you serve supports.
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Here is the xdpyinfo for my X server: thankyou .. Laxmi P. Musunur (LP)
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xdpyinfo for DESQview/X PC
name of display: 131.204.43.37:0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: DESQview/X (R), by Quarterdeck Office Systems
vendor release number: 100
maximum request size: 4096 longwords (16384 bytes)
motion buffer size: 0
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 8, MSBFirst, 32
image byte order: MSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 2
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 4, bits_per_pixel 4, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 124
number of extensions: 2
SHAPE
Quarterdeck Extensions
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0:
dimensions: 800x600 pixels (240x180 millimeters)
resolution: 85x85 dots per inch
depths (2): 1, 4
root window id: 0x80067
depth of root window: 4 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x80065
default number of colormap cells: 16
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 15
options: backing-store YES, save-unders NO
current input event mask: 0x70003c
ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask
LeaveWindowMask SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask
PropertyChangeMask
number of visuals: 1
default visual id: 0x80064
visual:
visual id: 0x80064
class: PseudoColor
depth: 4 planes
size of colormap: 16 entries
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 6 bits
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