| Re: color flashing on one of identical(?NOT) suns [message #29840 is a reply to message #29731] |
Thu, 21 March 2002 08:58  |
hradilv.nospam
Messages: 19
Registered: November 2001
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Does anyone have any ideas regarding this? Should I check with some
unix/sun/CDE guru's? Please help.
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:15:40 GMT, hradilv.nospam@yahoo.com (Vince)
wrote:
> IDL> print, !version
> { sparc sunos unix 5.4 Sep 25 2000 64 64}
>
> I've tried to figure it out from dfanning.com but I think it's a CDE
> problem:
>
> I have two (identically configured) Sun boxes running IDL 5.4.
> Obviously not identical, because one has a problem and the other
> doesn't.
>
> I get the 'color flashing' problem on one machine (mr3). My machine,
> mr1 works fine.
>
> I set direct_color=24 and decomp=0 on both. Both get 16777216 colors.
>
> xdpyinfo says that the default visual is PseudoColor, 8. The output
> from xwininfo shows that an xterm window is PseudoColor, 8 with
> colormap: 0x34 installed on both. xwininfo on a direct_graphics
> window shows -
>
> [machine]: Class, Depth, Colormap
> mr1 (okay): DirectColor, 24, 0x680001e (installed)
> mr3 (bad) : DirectColor, 24, 0x5c0001d (not installed) <-- not sure
> what this means
>
> Also, when I run idlhelp using '?' from the idl command line on mr3, I
> get the following errors:
>
> IDL> ?
>
> IDL> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "Grey75"
> Warning:
>
> Cannot parse default background color spec
>
> Warning: Cannot allocate colormap
> entry for "Grey90"
>
> I've tried various settings for CDE - use more colors for
> applications, use most colors for applications, default, etc.
>
> I'm not running (hardly) anything else on the machines (just xterms)
> and that doesn't seem to matter anyway.
>
> Thanks for your help, in advance.
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