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Re: 2000128: Color tables in Motif 2.1 on SunOS5

FYI, this problem was fixed on the Ultra 10 by the command m64config -depth
8. Thanx for the lead.

At 11:41 AM 1/28/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>From: Bob Lane <address@hidden>
>>Organization: .
>>Keywords: 200001281618.JAA09196
>
>>I have built GEMPAK on an Ultra 10 that is running Motif 2.1 I get the
>>following error message.
>>
>>GEMPLT -46 NCLRAL - Can not allocate read/write colors
>>
>>and have tried the normal method of reducing the allocation of color tables
>>to other applications. If I run any GEMPAK program on an AIX machine
>>running Motif 1.2 as a remote terminal things work fine. 
>>
>>In the course of building GEMPAK, I've had to fix several #if errors
>>related to XmVersion and XmRelease as the c compiler wanted the directives
>>in column 1. The routines I fixed were:
>>nxmColrp.c
>>nxmLabel.c
>>nxmBxmBtn.c
>>nmap_mbotw.c
>>nmap_mmenuw.c
>>
>
>
>Bob,
>
>You need to have the default depth of your X server set to 8 bits.
>Gemnpak is not capable of displaying to a truecolor visual.
>
>Check your output from "xdpyinfo" and look for
>the default visual ID. You will need to configure your X server to
>ensure that this is a pseudocolor 8 bit default visual.
>
>Steve Chiswell
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