Re: [Update REQ 5108]: bug in alpha version of 1.5 prelease?

[ggriffin at cmbr.phys.cmu.edu]

On Sun, 23 Oct 1994, Daeron Meyer wrote:

> Yes, it is undoubtedly something to do with shared memory. I wonder if
> there are two things you could do for us. First, if you have more than
> one Dec Alpha, try running the program on one and bringing up the display
> on another and see if it works. Also, try running it on an Alpha and
> bringing up the display on a Sun or HP or anything besides the Alpha and
> see if it works. Finally could you mail us the results of these tests as
> well as the output of "xdpyinfo" for the Dec Alpha X server. It may take
> a while to fix whatever is wrong with the Alpha version since we don't
> have any of those machines here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daeron
> 
> 

don't have second dec alpha

same error bringing up desplay on a sparc (SunOS 4.1.2)
logged onto the alpha, gdb gives 
#0  XShmCreateImage () at XShm.c:327

I can perform any further tests you wish, can even give
you a temporary account on our machine if you want to
do some testing yourself remotely. 

Question: have you had feedback from any other alpha users
who are having this problem? Why were there alpha binaries
for previous versions of geomview but the recent version?
Just curious.


xdpyinfo follows:
------------------------------------------------------------
name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    DECWINDOWS Digital Equipment Corporation DEC OSF/1 V1.2
vendor release number:    1
maximum request size:  262140 bytes
motion buffer size:  100
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    4
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 12, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 86, maximum 251
focus:  window 0x300000d, revert to Parent
number of extensions:    11
    SHAPE
    MIT-SHM
    Multi-Buffering
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    Keyboard-Management-Extension
    Shared-Memory Transport
    DEC-XTRAP
    XVideo
    Xie
    Adobe-DPS-Extension
    DPSExtension
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (331x254 millimeters)
  resolution:    98x102 dots per inch
  depths (2):    1, 8
  root window id:    0x29
  depth of root window:    8 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x27
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  preallocated pixels:    black 1, white 0
  options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
  current input event mask:    0x70003c
    ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask        EnterWindowMask          
    LeaveWindowMask          SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask          
    PropertyChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    6
  default visual id:  0x20
  visual:
    visual id:    0x20
    class:    PseudoColor
    depth:    8 planes
    size of colormap:    256 entries
    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x21
    class:    DirectColor
    depth:    8 planes
    size of colormap:    8 entries
    red, green, blue masks:    0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
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    class:    GrayScale
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  visual:
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    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x24
    class:    StaticColor
    depth:    8 planes
    size of colormap:    256 entries
    red, green, blue masks:    0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x25
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    8 planes
    size of colormap:    8 entries
    red, green, blue masks:    0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  number of mono multibuffer types:    6
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x20, 0, 8
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x21, 0, 8
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x22, 0, 8
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x23, 0, 8
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x24, 0, 8
    visual id, max buffers, depth:    0x25, 0, 8
  number of stereo multibuffer types:    0