Re: [Closed REQ 5822]: error message

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> 
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 17:43:58 -0400
> Message-Id: <199604142143.RAA22154 at argus.homer.att.com>
> From: Les Johnson <les at ulysses.homer.att.com>
> To: software@geom.umn.edu
> Subject: error message
> 
> Folks,
> 
>   Got this error message on startup of geomview:
> 
> argus:/u4/Geomview$ ./geomview
> 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@geom.umn.edu
> 
> Here's the output of xdpyinfo:
> 
> name of display:    :0.0
> version number:    11.0
> vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
> vendor release number:    3120
> 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:    2
> supported pixmap formats:
>     depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
> keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 134
> focus:  window 0x5c00002, revert to Parent

You are probably running Linux with a 16bit X display. To use Geomview
with 16bit graphics you'll need the latest version, available from:

ftp://ftp.geom.umn.edu/priv/trowley/geomview-1.5.x-linux-elf.tar.gz

enjoy,
Daeron