Re: [Closed REQ 5414]: Cannot run HP version

["Daeron Meyer" <daeron>]

> 
> Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:50:16 EDT
> From: "Mike Zelina, SDRC (Siemens)" <zelina at sgi.siemens.com>
> To: software@geom
> Message-Id: <00990E0D.66E3CFE0.10 at sgi.siemens.com>
> Subject: Cannot run HP version
> 
> 
> I am running HP-UX A.09.05 and get the following error when I 
> run geomview:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
>   Serial number of failed request:  1261
>   Current serial number in output stream:  1273
> 
> I downloaded the software and went through the install.  
> Everything seemed to be OK.  Any clues as to why this
> won't run, or was it compiled for a different HP 
> version?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Zelina
> ((555) 555-5555
> 
> 
> 

We've seen this problem before with HPs.  The cause of the problem is
probably the X server, which on some HPs presents two different 8 bit
pseudo-color visuals.  The motif interface tries to use one of these
visuals and the rendering code tries to use the other.  Since both
share the camera window we get the bad match error.  We've seen no
other brand of workstation with this strange characteristic of having
two seemingly identical visuals.  In any case, we do provide a
version of geomview that's patched up to work around this problem.
Just FTP the following file from ftp.geom.umn.edu:

/priv/daeron/bin/gvx.hp.Z

It's a drop in replacement for the gvx binary that came with your
distribution.  Just uncompress it and use it to replace the file:

{GEOMROOT}/bin/x11/gvx

Hope this helps,

Daeron