[daip] Fwd: Question: AIPS TV Sever

[Wes Young]

Try the following:

Open system prefrences,
select Displays
Look for Colors and make sure it is set to Millions.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

>
> Dear Eric,
>
> I have acknowledged for your kind support in AIPS.
> Now I have a question about a problem in AIPS TV Server,
> to which I cannot find the answer in the web page.
>
> Recently, AIPS version 31DEC09 was installed in Mac OS X 10.5  
> (Leopard)
> suceesfully. But TV Server is not started. The problem will come from
> an issue about 8, 24/16 bit display. In fact, when executing the AIPS,
> I saw the following messages.
>
> XAS: ***********************************
> XAS: **  No TrueColor found
> XAS: **  Resorting to PseudoColor
> XAS: ***********************************
> XAS: No pseudocolor visual - No suitable visual: No such file or  
> directory
>
> Then I found that my Mac is set to 15 bit display as follows.
>
> >xdpyinfo |more
> ..
> ..
> screen #0:
>   print screen:    no
>   dimensions:    1440x900 pixels (488x305 millimeters)
>   resolution:    75x75 dots! per inch
>   depths (7):    15, 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32
>   root window id:    0x44
>   depth of root window:    15 planes
>   number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
>   default colormap:    0x21
>   default number of colormap cells:    32
>   preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 32767
>   options:    backing-store NO, save-unders NO
>   largest cursor:    32x32
>   current input event mask:    0x1a0000
>     StructureNotifyMask      SubstructureNotifyMask    
> SubstructureRedirectMask
>   number of visuals:    8
>   default visual id:  0x24
>   visual:
>     visual id:    0x24
>     class:    TrueColor
>  &nbs! p;  depth:    15 planes
>     avai lable colormap entries:    32 per subfield
>     red, green, blue masks:    0x7c00, 0x3e0, 0x1f
>     significant bits in color specification:    5 bits
> ..
> ..
>
> Now I would like to ask how to set the parameter 'depth' to 8 or 24  
> planes.
> I hope that this recover the problem and the TV server can run.
> I am so happy with your kind help.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Hiroshi Imai
>
>
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>
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