20010214: Garp X question

John,

If your X server is running in 24 bit mode, it must be changed to 8 bit.
(see the output from xdpyinfo).

If you are running in 8 bit mode, make sure you launch garp with "ntl"
running. Ntl will ensure that you have enough colors allocated.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: "John C. Nordlie" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200102142135.f1ELZwL17302

>Hi.
>       I'm trying to run GARP from our Sun Ultra-60 (Sunos 5.5.1) via
>an X terminal session from a FreeBSD 4.2 box running X11.  Here's the
>error I get:
>
> flood% garp
> G A R P - v2.1 starting...
> InitGempakColorMap:  Can't allocate Graphic colors.
> GarpInitialize:  GempakInit failed
> Main: Initialization failed.  Exiting
> flood% 
>
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