phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) (06/12/90)
Hi I'm not sure that this is the right group, nevertheless...
I'm trying to get xgif to work on an HP 300 system. xgif is a colour gif
viewer for x windows. It runs only on colour workstations with at least 8
bits-per-pixel. I got what I assume to be the latest version of the sources
(patch level 1) and it compiles ok, but when I run it it reads the gif file,
creates a destination window, zaps the colour map (if I told it to), but then
falls over when it is about to draw the image. The error reported is a failure
in XPutImage (bad parameters or somesuch thing). Has anyone got a gif viewer
working on an HPUX system? Anyone care to suggest what might be wrong. As a
newcomer to X windows stuff (I use the Mac much more...) I only have limited
experience with X Windows and this error has got me beat!
Thanks
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phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) writes: >Hi I'm not sure that this is the right group, nevertheless... I've added comp.windows.x to it and redirected followups to same. >I'm trying to get xgif to work on an HP 300 system. xgif is a colour gif >viewer for x windows. It runs only on colour workstations with at least 8 >bits-per-pixel. I got what I assume to be the latest version of the sources >(patch level 1) and it compiles ok, but when I run it it reads the gif file, >creates a destination window, zaps the colour map (if I told it to), but then >falls over when it is about to draw the image. The error reported is a failure >in XPutImage (bad parameters or somesuch thing). I have run into the same problem with xgif on Thomas Roell's X11R4 VGA server for Unix System V/386. -- Pim Zandbergen domain : pim@cti-software.nl CTI Software BV uucp : uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70 phone : +31 70 3542302 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands fax : +31 70 3512837
kelso@seas.gwu.edu (John Kelso) (06/14/90)
In article <1990Jun12.151942.9042@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) writes: >I'm trying to get xgif to work on an HP 300 system. xgif is a colour gif >viewer for x windows. It runs only on colour workstations with at least 8 >bits-per-pixel. I got what I assume to be the latest version of the sources >(patch level 1) and it compiles ok, but when I run it it reads the gif file, >creates a destination window, zaps the colour map (if I told it to), but then >falls over when it is about to draw the image. The error reported is a failure >in XPutImage (bad parameters or somesuch thing). Has anyone got a gif viewer >working on an HPUX system? Anyone care to suggest what might be wrong. As a >newcomer to X windows stuff (I use the Mac much more...) I only have limited >experience with X Windows and this error has got me beat! Are you sure that your HP has 8 bits-per-pixel? I ran into the same problem that you did, and found out the reason it did not work on my workstation, but did on all of our others, is that my workstation only has 6 bits-per-pixel. You can find out by noting the type of bit map display you have- this is displayed when you reboot- and looking it up on page 9-3 of the "Using the X Window System" manual. Mine is a 98549, for example. Hope this helps, John -- John Kelso, System Engineer, George Washington University SEAS Computing Facility, 725 23rd St NW, Washington DC 20052 kelso@seas.gwu.edu -or- uunet!gwusun!kelso --
fritz@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz) (06/15/90)
> Are you sure that your HP has 8 bits-per-pixel? I ran into the same > problem that you did, and found out the reason it did not work on my > workstation, but did on all of our others, is that my workstation only > has 6 bits-per-pixel. FYI: It's possible the xgif you have can't handle 6-bit displays, but if so, it's not a very robust implementation. I've sent Phil a copy of an xgif that works very nicely on my series 300 running HP-UX 7.0 and handles my 6-bit display with no problems. Gary