20001027: setting 8 bit color on DEC UNIX for GEMPAK

Doug,

The default visual ID must be 8 bit pseudocolor for GEMPAK.
The configuration for the depth of the X server is generally set in
/etc/dt/config or /usr/lib/X11/config (the former if you are running
CDE). The man page on X(1) should define the options that may be 
specified with the server on startup, generall something like -defdepth 8
(unless you already are setting it to 16 bits. 

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



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>Hi:  Any help on this would be appreciated.
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>Thanks!
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>  Doug
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>Steve:  I've got a user, So-Young Ha, who took one of your GEMPAK
>classes recently.
>She has recently installed GEMPAK on one of our DEC alpha UNIX machines,
>and it is now failing to open up displays with a message like:  'cannot
>allocate colors'.
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>She says that you recommended that I set up X11 on this machine to use 8
>bit pseudocolor (as reported by xdpyinfo).  The DEC machine is currently
>set up for 16 bit truecolor.  I don't know much about X on DECs.  Do you
>know how to change this?
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>Thanks much, 
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>  Doug Hunt
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>Hi, Doug,
>
>As you know, I've installed the GEMPAK on athos.
>But for executing and viewing the programs, the system should be set as
>8 bit colors, as Steve (the Unidata software engineer) said.
>Could you please change the system color mode in athos?
>He said there's no other problem even though we change the color mode,
>but I'm not familiar with the problem.
>But I believe you know what the problem and the solution is. - I mean,
>how to change and configure the color mode in the system.
>Without your help, I don't think I can use GEMPAK. ^^
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>Thanks a lot.
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