[daip] TV Open error

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Dec 17 11:51:12 EST 2002


See
    http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/aipsmgr/index.html

R. Ramachandran writes:

 >   XASERVERS: Start XAS on anamika, DISPLAY :0
 >   XAS: ***********************************
 >   XAS: **  No TrueColor found
 >   XAS: **  Resorting to PseudoColor
 >   XAS: ***********************************
 >   XAS: No pseudocolor visual - No suitable visual: No such file or

XAS does not work on the (Linux default) X Windows which is a 16-bit
"TrueColor".  That color scheme only allows 31 levels for an image,
too few for science.  You need to convert to 24/32-bit TrueColor or
8-bit PseudoColor.  The FAQ has near its top a discussion of this
point.

Eric



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