MCMILLAN@gmr.com (02/03/90)
I'm tying to get my screendump (and also the network's dumpregion) to work on my 3/60 color system. The screendump results in a WRONG color map, and no text in tty windows. Dumpregion is similar, but with the correct color map (i think). I've done nothing special to my system (i.e., it's all factory specs). Any ideas, anyone?? please help!!!! Don Mcmillan GM Research Labs mcmillan@gmr.com
msm@uunet.uu.net (Michael S. Maiten) (02/08/90)
In SUN SPOTS DIGEST v9n28, it was asked: >From: MCMILLAN@gmr.com > >I'm tying to get my screendump (and also the network's dumpregion) to work >on my 3/60 color system. The screendump results in a WRONG color map, and >no text in tty windows. Dumpregion is similar, but with the correct color >map (i think). I've done nothing special to my system (i.e., it's all >factory specs). I have also encountered this problem and reported it to SUN. It is officially bug #1014161 which is that screendump does not work properly with a cgfour device. It can either dump color or the overlay plane, but not both. Sun said that it is fixed in OS 4.1, but there is no patch for 4.0.3. A work around is to run suntools entirely in the color plane (-8bit_color_only) but this results in everything running slower. If you did not need the color displayed nor dumped, you could run everything in the overlay plane (-overlay_only). Michael S. Maiten Internet: msm%ensys@bridge2.esd.3com.com Energetic Systems or: msm%ensys@silvlis.com Telephone: +1 415 964-9746 UUCP: {sun!silvlis,bridge2}!ensys!msm