20040131: GARP@_an_SGI via Hummingbird/Exceed [Details]

Bill,

I'm guessing your PC-X display is running in true color.
Sounds like you are running an old version of GEMPAK before 24 bit color was
added. You need to be running GEMPAK 5.6.h or later to support 16/24 bit
displays.

Steve Chiswell



On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Capehart, William J wrote:

> Thanks to the people who responded via direct email so far.  I forgot to
> include some key details regarding our OS and specific problem.  To be
> specific to our problem, we are running the GEMPAK et al. off of an SGI
> running IRIX 6.5 and Exceed8 on the PCs (most people who responded are using
> a variant of Linux, I noticed)
>
> When we execute garp from the pc's exceed window, we've been getting the
> following error.
>
> [wjc@breeze:/home/staff/wjc]% garp
> G A R P - v2.1 starting...
> InitGempakColorMap:  Can't allocate Graphic colors.
> GarpInitialize:  GempakInit failed
> Main: Initialization failed.  Exiting
> [wjc@breeze:/home/staff/wjc]%
>
> This is accompanied by a momentary tease of the GARP interface which appears
> and disappears within a second.
>
> Would this be common problem in setting up Garp and such for other OSs or is
> this a problem unique to the SGI machines?
>
> Cheers and Thanks,
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> Bill Capehart <address@hidden>   Associate Professor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden]
> On Behalf Of Capehart, William J
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:11 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: GARP via Hummingbird/Exceed
>
> All:
>
> Has anyone any [successful] experience in getting GARP, NSHARP or the
> related GEMPAK packages to function on a PC using Hummingbird/Exceed to
> connect to a Unix workstation?  (In our case the serving engine would be an
> SGI.)  Ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers and Thanks...
> ================================================================
> Bill Capehart <address@hidden>   Associate Professor
> Institute of Atmospheric Sciences         Land Surface Processes
> 213 Mineral Industries Building                 Hydrometeorology
> South Dakota School of Mines and Technology  Ph: +1-605-394-1994
> 501 East Saint Joseph Street                Fax: +1-605-394-6061
> Rapid City, SD  57701-3995               Mobile: +1-605-484-5692
> ========== http://www.hpcnet.org/sdsmt/wcapehart/about =========
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