[daip] problems with TV server

Eric Greisen egreisen at cv3.cv.nrao.edu
Tue Oct 30 12:52:49 EST 2001


Joshua Winn writes:
 > ?XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on floreana
 > XASERVERS: Start XAS on floreana, DISPLAY :0.0
 > TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
 > XAS: ***********************************
 > XAS: **  No TrueColor found
 > XAS: **  Resorting to PseudoColor
 > XAS: ***********************************
 > XAS: Using screen width height 1270 924, max grey level 196
 > XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
 > Shared memory id failure: Invalid argument

    Thius is the significant error.  It comes from the default shared
memory size which is 1 Megabyte and your screen (1270 x 924) is just a
bit larger in the pseduocolor mode.  Add the the file (as root)
/etc/system the lines

* Large shared memory segment for AIPS TV, from Dave Brown
*   GEM, 20 Mar 98

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=8388608



Eric Greisen



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