Part Summary: XWindow question (displaying Netview/6000 on Sparc 5)

From: Danny Lee (del@nabaus.com.au)
Date: Thu Sep 12 1996 - 21:40:20 CDT


Hello all,

The great thing about this list is that there is always at least one
person who is bound to know something!!!

Thanks to steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield), who hit it in one.
Netview/6000 is having problems with the default 24-bit frame buffer
(S24) that came built-in with the Sparc 5s.

I tried displaying Netview/6000 again in openwindows (in 8-bit mode)
using the command:

        openwin -dev /dev/fbs/tcx0 defdepth 8

and it works!!!

However, the problem now is, how can I do the same in CDE? Does anybody
have any ideas?

Regards,
        Danny

Original Question:
==================
Danny Lee wrote:
>
> Hello Sun-managers,
>
> Just wondering if any X Window gurus out there will be able to point me
> in the right direction......I'm running CDE on Solaris 2.5 on a Sparc 5
> and am trying to display Netview for AIX from a RISC/6000 over the
> network.
>
> When Netview/6000 is displayed on an AIX box, all the icons and windows
> are displayed correctly. However, when I try to display it over the
> network to a Solaris 2.5 CDE display, all my Netview icons are not
> displayed at all, and more importantly, the maps in the main Netview
> window doesn't get displayed at all.....and the only errors that I get
> on the AIX box is "ovw: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)". It
> seems to have problems drawing the contents of the windows...ie. most
> windows are just blank even though the window border is OK.
>
> Has anybody come across this situation before? Can anyone point me in
> the right direction?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Danny
>
Reply:
======

From: steveb@pcs.co.uk (Steve Butterfield)

Danny,
        It sounds a bit like a mismatch of visuals to me. Is there a
difference in the Framebuffer depths on the two machines ?.

Best Regards,

Steve Butterfield.

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