sysmark@physics.utoronto.ca (Mark Bartelt) (03/09/91)
Yesterday I posted a description of a problem involving a failure in XAllocColorCells on an IRIS. Within four hours, I'd gotten replies from *two* people at SGI (thanks, guys!), both of whom made a correct analysis/diagnosis, with a suggestion about how to make things work. (Sure beats waiting a day or two (or longer) for a reply from the SGI hotline, doesn't it? :-) In case anyone is interested, all I needed to do was to kill off Xsgi and restart it with the -pseudo option. By default, it gets started with -envm, which makes only 16 color cells available for allocation. The replies from the SGI folks were the first two to arrive, but since then I've gotten almost a dozen others, nearly all of which were useful, and a couple of which even contained a mini-tutorial (well, an overview, at least) about some salient features of X that the writers thought an X neophyte ought to know. Amazing. Where do all you people find the *time* to be so helpful? (He says, realizing full well that he himself has cadged time from his job to do the same thing on topics about which he actually knows something. ;-) Anyway, many thanks. (And you can bet I'll be back!) -- Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619 Canadian Institute for sysmark@cita.toronto.edu Theoretical Astrophysics sysmark@cita.utoronto.ca