Re: [Closed REQ 5783]: X-Geomview problem

[daemon]

> 
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:39:43 -0600 (CST)
> From: "J. Metzger" <metzger at pc3.math.und.nodak.edu>
> To: Software at geom.umn.edu
> Subject: X-Geomview problem
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960306112739.714A-100000 at pc3.math.und.nodak.edu>
> 
> 
> 
> I read about geomview in the latest Linux Journal, and thought I'd
> give it a try. The system is on a Gateway 2000 P5-133.
> After untarring geomview, cd-ing to /Geomview and running geomview as 
> indicated in the INSTALL file, I got the message
> X-Geomview currently supports only 24, 8, and 1 bit
>         deep displays.  No supported display depth was found.
>         Please mail the output of "xdpyinfo" to
>         Software at geom.umn.edu
> 
> So here's the output:
> 
> name of display:    :0.0
> version number:    11.0
> vendor string:    X Inside Inc.
> vendor release number:    1201
> maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
> motion buffer size:  0
> bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
> image byte order:    LSBFirst
> number of supported pixmap formats:    7
> supported pixmap formats:
>     depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 12, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
> keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 167
> focus:  window 0xc0000d, revert to Parent
> number of extensions:    12
>     BIG-REQUESTS
>     DEC-XTRAP
>     MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>     MIT-SHM
>     MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
>     Multi-Buffering
>     SHAPE
>     XI-ShmLink
>     XIdle
>     XTEST
>     XTestExtension1
>     XsightExtension
> default screen number:    0
> number of screens:    1
> 
> screen #0:
>   dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (346x260 millimeters)
>   resolution:    75x75 dots per inch
>   depths (2):    1, 16
>   root window id:    0x26
>   depth of root window:    16 planes
>   number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
>   default colormap:    0x24
>   default number of colormap cells:    64
>   preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 65535
>   options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
>   largest cursor:    64x64
>   current input event mask:    0x50003d
>     KeyPressMask             ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask        
>     EnterWindowMask          LeaveWindowMask          SubstructureRedirectMask 
>     PropertyChangeMask       
>   number of visuals:    4
>   default visual id:  0x20
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x20
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    16 planes
>     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x21
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    16 planes
>     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x22
>     class:    TrueColor
>     depth:    16 planes
>     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x23
>     class:    DirectColor
>     depth:    16 planes
>     available colormap entries:    64 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
>     significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
> 
> *******************************************
> I am relatively new to Linux, so it is very possible that 
> I have something configured incorrectly on my system.
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for the info. It is clear that your system only supports 16 bit
display depths which geomview, in the currently released form, does
not support. However, there is a binary we distribute for linux that
will fix that problem. You can download it from:

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

Just uncompress this and use it as a drop in replacement for your
currently installed "gvx" binary. Then it should work.

enjoy,
Daeron