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Re: Unsupported X Windows visual [message #35066 is a reply to message #34971]

Wed, 07 May 2003 03:02

Nigel Wade
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Hannah Chenh wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm getting the following message when I try to use PseudoColor depth
> 8:
>
> % Unsupported X Windows visual (class: PseudoColor, depth: 8).
> Substituting default (class: TrueColor, Depth: 24).
>
> IDL 5.5 is installed on an HP-UX 11.0 machine and I'm logging from a
> Blade 100 running solaris 8 to use IDL. The output of xdpyinfo on the
> Blade shows that it supports 8 bits color.
>
> Does anyone know what is the problem?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Hannah

Is DISPLAY definitely pointing to the Blade's display before starting IDL?

If not IDL is going to try to open the HP display which may not support
PsuedoColor.

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