[daip] Fwd: Question: AIPS TV Sever

[Wes Young]

Also check your X11 display preferences, make sure it's either set to  
"From Display" or Millions.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Wes Young wrote:

> 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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