How do I get rid of those white monitors? (fwd)

Pat Luther pluther at usit.net
Mon Jul 22 08:00:00 EDT 1996



Luc:

I had this problem before with ERDAS software on a SUN Sparc2.  The problem
is probably your video card.  The d.display is too color intensive.  Turn off
everything you can in your monitor display (backgrounds, clocks, etc.).
>
>1) I strarted a monitor and used d.display, which seems to work fine,
>but when I put my cursor on the monitor, the rest of the screen turns
>red and orange. It DOES wake you up, but I prefer coffee. How do I
>change this? Color related man pages did not give me a clue.
>
For this problem, run d.erase after resizing monitors before running
d.rast (or d.vect).

>2) Furthermore, I started 3 monitors and first I reduced their size. The
>monitors turned from black to white. I tried to display elevation.dem
>with d.rast map=elevation.dem on the white monitors and nothing happens.
>If I don't reduce a monitr first, and immediately display elevation.dem,
>a white field appears on the black background, where elevation.dem is
>supposed to show up. Strange thing is that I used to be able to display
>elevation.dem. What did I do so that I can not display it anymore or
>what are sources of my problem, and how do I solve the problem?
>
I think you are running in colormode float.  Change to colormode fixed.

>I appreciate your help for getting me on the GRASS roads, after these
>first hours of muddling around.
>Luc.
>!!!!!!!!!!
>PS: I HAD TWO SEND THIS MESSAGE TWICE. IN THE MEANTIME I FOUND OUT THAT MY
>SECOND PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE SOLVED IF I RUN FROM THE C SHELL, NOT FROM BASH.
>IS THIS CORRECT AND HOW DO I RUN FROM BASH?
>
To run from bash, change the entry in the password file to bash instead of
csh.

I offer GRASS support services, and will send additional information by a 
seperate e-mail.

Pat Luther
>
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