I'm not an Xpert (pun), but I'm pretty sure the problem is more with
the X-server than with DX. I would go to the XFree86 mailing lists
and see if anybody there might be able to help out. As far as my
opinion, I'd definitely spend a little money and get a better
graphics card (something that coudl support 24 bit at a decent
resolution/speed. I've seen nVidia TNT-2 PCI cards selling for $35.00.
David
David,
Can you set the color depth to another bit depth and see what
happens. I bet there is something up with the number of color planes
that is causing the problem.
YEP,
I changed the color depth from 16 bit to 24 bit, after I realized that your
questions pointed into the direction that there may be something with the
XServer. After changing OpenDX also tells me the color depth is 24 bit. I
could not believe that I could see the graph finally. The bad thing about it
is that with my resolution I am only to able to go up to 60 Hz - which really
gets on the eyes. I wonder how I could get the graph with 16 bit color depth.
Why is there a difference in the results? Can I change something on the
OpenDX Server, so my XServer does not have a problem anymore?
The error you're getting with respect to GLX infers that you do not
have GL (hardware rendering) capabilities. This may be due to the
fact that OpenGL was not installed on your Sun and thus this option
would not be available.
By checking ldd dxexec I saw that it is dynamically linked to libGL.so.
ldd dxexec
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
libsocket.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
libXpm.so.4.11 => /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
libdl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
libm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libm.so.1
libSM.so.6 => /usr/openwin/lib/libSM.so.6
libICE.so.6 => /usr/openwin/lib/libICE.so.6
libXm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXm.so.4
libXp.so.1 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXp.so.1
libGL.so.1 => /usr/openwin/lib/libGL.so.1
libXext.so.0 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
libXt.so.4 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXt.so.4
libX11.so.4 => /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
libpthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
libgen.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
libdga.so.1 => /usr/openwin/lib/libdga.so.1
libXmu.so.4 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXmu.so.4
libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
libthread.so.1 => /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire/lib/libc_psr.so.1
Now I know a solution but don't really understand the effects. Maybe I could
go ahaed and get a new graphics board but I probably could end up in a
similar situation.
Deeply appreciating your help! Thank you very much!
Raphael
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