[daip] New Ticket - [!IKO-326042]: AIPS TV is blank

[Andrej Favia]

New Ticket: AIPS TV is blank

Greetings. I am following an AIPS tutorial located at:
http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~hrk/AIPS_TUTORIAL/HRK_AIPS_1.html

In their Section 2.1, I am asked to use AIPS TV to display the VLA transfer function.

The display tasks operate correctly, but AIPS TV remains blank.



I am using a MacBook (with a 6-bit monitor - to avoid confusion, I mean 6-bit in each of red, green, and blue) and am running Mac OS X 10.5. My computer name is set to "LOCALHOST" in AIPS.

I read the FAQs located at:
http://aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/index.html
but when I type "xdpyinfo | more" (in X11), I am told that my depth is 24 planes, rather than 16. I have not yet tried "export DISPLAY=localhost:0" - the last time I did this, I had to erase many data files manually to get AIPS working again.

I am tempted to try the "tv=local" launch parameter, but AIPS TV is one of my three messenger windows... my pointer cursor changed to a + symbol when mousing over, but AIPS TV just doesn't display anything.

I have already edited "/etc/services" to include # AIPS TV server, # AIPS TV lock, etc.

Here is what I get when I launch AIPS:


XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on localhost
XASERVERS: Start XAS on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-NLI29p/:0
TVSERVER: Starting AIPS TV locking, Inet domain
XASERVERS: Start graphics server TEKSRV on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-NLI29p/:0
XAS: ** TrueColor FOUND!!! 
XAS: ***  Using shared memory option for speed ***
XAS: Using screen width 1270 height 678,
     max grey level 8191 in 16 grey-scale memories
AIPS 1: You are assigned TV device/server   1
AIPS 1: You are assigned graphics device/server   1
XASERVERS: Start message server MSGSRV on localhost, DISPLAY /tmp/launch-NLI29p/:0

(MacBook 2.1 GHz, Mac OS X 10.5.8, 2.25 GB RAM)

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: IKO-326042
Department: AIPS Data Processing
Priority: Default
Status: Open
Link:  https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=325