Re: [Closed REQ 5755]: Goem Problem

[daemon]

> 
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 09:51:14 -0600 (CST)
> From: Thomas Simpson <simpson at nasacci.cs.olemiss.edu>
> To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: Goem Problem
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960220094801.17713A-100000 at nasacci.cs.olemiss.edu>
> 
> Not a real problem, but the message ask me to mail this to you, so I am 
> sending a copy of the output from xdpyinfo.  I run X in 16bpp mode, so I 
> can't use Geomview unless I start X in the 8bpp mode.  I'm running 
> Linux.  I would love to know when you get 16bpp going for Linux.  
> 
> Thomas Simpson                        
> NASA CCI University Mississippi
> simpson at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu
> simpson at nasacci.cs.olemiss.edu
> 
> 

Hi Thomas,

  There is a "patch" for 16bit X linux users. Just grab:

ftp://ftp.geom.umn.edu/priv/daeron/bin/gvx.linux.gz

gunzip this file and use it as a drop in replacement for your
"gvx" binary in $GEOMROOT/bin/linux/gvx. This should be able
to work in 16 bit mode quite nicely.

-Daeron