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19991122: more agin..more on not enough colors with GARP

Robert,

as I mentioned, you can launch ntl with "-s 64" to cut the number of
colors Gempak will use for satellite images in half.
Using your ntl output below, that would mean that GEMPAK would
request 113 color which would be well under the 140 you have.
Launch ntl before any GEMPAK programs.

You should be able to tell what visual a program is using by
clicking on the window from the xwininfo prompt. Its possible that something,
including the window manager is still eating up the colors. Have you tried
setting the CDE window manager to maximum colors for applications, or
gray? Again, make sure you are not in netscape before trying to launch.
Its still possible that Netscape uses the first available color table it gets
to- so one may still be grabbing the default display.

Did things use to work with this card?

Steve Chiswell

>From: weather <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199911222048.NAA14195

>Steve,
>
>I am running one of those Sun 8/24 cards that lets you run
>8-bit programs separate from 24.  McIDAS and GARP would
>compete with each other, but Netscape runs in full 24 bit
>mode and does not affect the 8-bit.  Xdpyinfo is below.
>I reran the frame buffer config program and confirmed that I
>am in 8/24 bit mode.  I confirmed this by opening four
>copies of Netscape (running in full color mode).  I can
>still start McIDAS and GARP, but still can't use McIDAS
>with the full 128 gray levels or view sat pics with GARP.
>I have not made any changes that I am aware of, yet aomething
>seems to be consuming colors that the 8-bit programs need.
>
>/export/home/weather% ntl
>graphic, satellite, radar -- 33 128 16
>         Request total # of colors = 177
>         Current available system colors = 140
>/export/home/weather% 
>
>I even tried running in 8-bit only mode and same thing(see above)
>
>Any ideas where to start looking?
>
>Thanks,
>Robert
>
>name of display:    psnldm:0.0
>version number:    11.0
>vendor string:    Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>vendor release number:    3610
>maximum request size:  262140 bytes
>motion buffer size:  256
>bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, MSBFirst, 32
>image byte order:    MSBFirst
>number of supported pixmap formats:    5
>supported pixmap formats:
>    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
>    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
>    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
>    depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
>keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 132
>focus:  window 0x4c00009, revert to PointerRoot
>number of extensions:    21
>    AccessX
>    Adobe-DPS-Extension
>    DOUBLE-BUFFER
>    DPSExtension
>    GLX
>    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>    MIT-SHM
>    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
>    Multi-Buffering
>    SHAPE
>    SUN_ALLPLANES
>    SUN_DGA
>    SUN_OVL
>    SUN_SME
>    SYNC
>    SolarisIA
>    XC-MISC
>    XIE
>    XInputDeviceEvents
>    XInputExtension
>    XTEST
>default screen number:    0
>number of screens:    1
>
>screen #0:
>  dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (289x217 millimeters)
>  resolution:    90x90 dots per inch
>  depths (3):    1, 8, 24
>  root window id:    0x29
>  depth of root window:    8 planes
>  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
>  default colormap:    0x20
>  default number of colormap cells:    256
>  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 1
>  options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
>  largest cursor:    unlimited
>  current input event mask:    0x38003f
>    KeyPressMask             KeyReleaseMask           ButtonPressMask         
>  
>    ButtonReleaseMask        EnterWindowMask          LeaveWindowMask         
>  
>    SubstructureNotifyMask   SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask         
>  
>  number of visuals:    5
>  default visual id:  0x22
>  visual:
>    visual id:    0x22
>    class:    PseudoColor
>    depth:    8 planes
>    available colormap entries:    256
>    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
>    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>  visual:
>    visual id:    0x23
>    class:    GrayScale
>    depth:    8 planes
>    available colormap entries:    256
>    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
>    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>  visual:
>    visual id:    0x24
>    class:    StaticColor
>    depth:    8 planes
>    available colormap entries:    256
>    red, green, blue masks:    0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
>    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>  visual:
>    visual id:    0x25
>    class:    StaticGray
>    depth:    8 planes
>    available colormap entries:    256
>    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
>    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>  visual:
>    visual id:    0x26
>    class:    TrueColor
>    depth:    24 planes
>    available colormap entries:    256 per subfield
>    red, green, blue masks:    0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff
>    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
>