weon@oz.solvit.co.kr (Taehwan Weon) (10/26/90)
Operating System : IRIX 3.2 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Dear Xperts: I suffered from an X server problem - that is all that I can guess. My machine is Personal IRIS running X11R3 & NeWS from Silicon Grphics. When I invoked some X clients from remote machines, like FrameMaker, or acm, they complained and aborted with the message, "Cannot allocate color cells" Is there anyone who expreienced with the problem ? I tried to compile X server for Personal IRIS. Unfortunately, I cound not find ddx module from X11R4 tapes. I have compared IRIS' display infomation with color SPARCstations. Both are exactly same. Any comments will be highly appreciated!! -- THW(Taehwan Weon) --*--------**--------***--------****--------*****--------******--------******* Taehwan Weon Internet e-mail : weon@oz.solvit.co.kr SOLVIT Inc. 784-6 Kisung B/D Yeoksam-Dong Kangnam-Gu Seoul, Republic of Korea Tel: (02)561-0361~3 Fax: (02)561-0364
scotth@harlie.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) (10/27/90)
In article <9010271719.AA01444@oz.solvit.co.kr>, weon@oz.solvit.co.kr (Taehwan Weon) writes: |> Operating System : IRIX 3.2 |> |> I suffered from an X server problem - that is all that I can guess. |> My machine is Personal IRIS running X11R3 & NeWS from Silicon Grphics. |> When I invoked some X clients from remote machines, like FrameMaker, or |> acm, they complained and aborted with the message, "Cannot allocate color cells" |> Is there anyone who expreienced with the problem ? The SGI X-server uses the system-wide colormap. The default is to allocate 16 (under 3.3, anyway; I think it was the same under 3.2) cells as read/write, and the rest of the colormap is read-only. Many programs will fail because the server runs out of colormap cells it can allocate (the read/write ones). Read the Xsgi man page for a fuller discussion, but you can change the way the server shares colormap resources with the NeWS server at Xsgi startup time. `Xsgi -gl` will allocate most of the colormap as read/write cells to X, though GL programs can still step on them. The X-server performance has noticably improved from 3.2 to 3.3, so it would be very worthwile to upgrade. -- Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> / Traveller on Dragon Wings Information Services, / Help! My disclaimer is missing! Silicon Graphics, Inc / Politicians no baka!