Calcomp Drawing Board III (and colormaps)

[Angus Carr]

The color map problem you describe is a common one. You must use XDRIVER24
to operate grass on a 24bpp display. The 24bpp display will not do a
colormap, no matter how hard you try, so it returns the error cannot
create colormap.

The display works on the Xterminals because they are mapped color
displays.

Good luck!

Angus Carr
Masters of Forestry student 

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Steve Moore wrote:

> We have a Calcomp Drawing Board III hooked up to a Sun Sparc 5 which is
> running Solaris 2.5 and Grass 4.15.  Can anyone suggest what calcomp
> digitizer driver we should use?
> 
> Also we are unable to start a Grass monitor from an Xserver which is
> running CDE as the window manager.  If I issue the following command
> once grass has started: d.mon start=gisx1 I get the following error:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  78 (X_CreateColormap)
>   Serial number of failed request:  267
>   Current serial number in output stream:  268
> 
> Our monitorcap file has entries like this:
> 
>  gisx1:driver/XDRIVER:X-term display (gisx1): \
>       /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1a /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1b \
>       ::any terminal
> 
> and these work fine for Xterminals but not Xservers.
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Steve Moore - Software Coordinator
>               Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
>               (513) 529-1452
>