martin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Pat Martin) (08/06/90)
I have scanned through most of the (what I thought to be) the appropriate manuals to find a satisfactory answer to my question; I havent found the answer yet, so here goes... We have had our IRIS 4D for less than six months. Starting about 2 weeks ago, small white dots began appearing on the screen, especially whenever we activate a graphics package (QUANTA, FELIX...). Rebooting the system seems to "reset" the dots, but they reappear like clockwork. My question is (before I go running to the SGI hot-line) : is this something easily remedied by software, or does this sound like a hardware problem? Thanks. ..pkm (Patrick Martin) martin@slsiris.harvard.edu MARTIN@SLSVAX.HARVARD.EDU
ciemo@bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) (08/06/90)
In article <3752@husc6.harvard.edu>, martin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Pat Martin) writes: > > We have had our IRIS 4D for less than six months. Starting about 2 weeks ago, > small white dots began appearing on the screen, especially whenever we activate > a graphics package (QUANTA, FELIX...). Rebooting the system seems to "reset" > the dots, but they reappear like clockwork. > Maybe one of the graphics packages you are running is mucking with the color map. One of my coworkers was complaining to me that an ipasted image of herself had white spots in the hair. I popped up up showmap to watch the color map and then did a makemap to restore the default color map. Viola', the white specks disappeared. The changes in showmap showed my which color map entries changed. Next time the white dots appear, try running makemap. Either it will convince you that the problem is due to colormap contention or it will convince you that the problem lies elsewhere. --- Ciemo