On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:07:27PM +0200, David Komanek wrote: > Dear Alan, > > thanks for your comments/advices. I tried glxgears and it works. The gears > are not rotating fluent enough on my 800MHz pentium, but I don't expect > this is related to my problem. > > I am able to start xterm, swmgr, toolchest connecting to SGI 6.5.14 box > which probably use classical X11 and Motif library only. Trying to start > i.e. "jot", it claims: > > dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable - meda:10.0 > dgl error (default init): default dglopen(meda:10.0,4) returned -13 > Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't have the DGL extension. If you do an 'xdpyinfo' on your SGI box, you'll probably see it.
I suspect you won't be able to get this app working on anything but SGI boxes. > Connecting to another box, running IRIX 6.2, it is even worse - swmgr > shows only the first "Wait please ...." window and then you can wait for > hours and the main window does not appear. In the xterm you can see > following message: > > WARNING: Not all colors for application icons could be allocated. Some > interface elements may have different colors. > Warning: creating new shape image > > Jot coredumps, many others too. > Toolchest starts fine, but no apps called invoked from its menus. > > When I run this apps on the local graphics console of an SGI box, it works > fine. > > Well, this problem is not connection type related (both ssh and > telnet+xhost produce same results). Probably should I install something on > the SGI boxes to translate DGL requests into the X11 protocol (rendered on > the server side, but at least working) ? > How many colours is your Windows screen set up in ? Try changing the depth to 24bit (i.e. 16million colours) Alan.
