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20000223: gf driver

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  • Subject: 20000223: gf driver
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 13:42:56 -0700
Chris,

I would suggest checking to make sure you didn't reboot into
a 24bit X configuration using the xdpyinfo command after making
sure that no message queues are hanging around. You might also check that your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set- some environmental variables may have been changed.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
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>Steve -
>
>Today I rebooted my machine and now my gf driver is hosed again.  Same
>symptoms as before, until you copied your gf driver executable into mine.
>I don't know what to make of this.  Please advise.  Thanks.
>
>Chris 
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>On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> 
>> Chris,
>> 
>> I rebuilt the distribution, but get the same results when trying to
>> set the display to shear:0. Sending to my machine here works ok.
>> 
>> I copied over my solaris executable of $GEMEXE/gf (moved the one built
>> on your machine to $GEMEXE/gf.old. All appears to work fine using
>> or copy. You will want to verify this on your own of course.
>> 
>> At this point, this result would lead me to beleive there is something
>> in the X server that has either been patched or updated along the way.
>> I will need to look at the library calls used by gf and see if any
>> patches have been issued along the way. 
>> 
>> I also noticed that your ~ldm/decoders directory still has old versions of
>> the dc executables in there (from last August, so you will probably want to
>> make sure you are running updated version of the decoders).
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
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