Glad to hear you got it working!  How far down did you have to decrease
the depth?


Lex


Ivan Brusic <ivan at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> OK! Squeak is finally up and running.  Changing my display depth
*down*
> made it work.  Ack, but I like TrueColor.
> 
> Ivan
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Ivan Brusic wrote:
> 
> > 
> > None of these solutions work.  I am using 32bpp depth, and Squeak
still
> > refuses to run.  This is getting fustrating.
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
> > On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Dino wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Hi!
> > > 
> > > If you use vnc to access your X desktop, you can run the vncviewer
with the -cc
> > > 3 option and a depth of 16.  It seems to have fixed my vnc
problem.  
> > > 
> > > Although, I don't see this being a problem if you run squeak in
X11.  I run it
> > > fine on my machine.  I'm also running 2.2.4 and libc6.  You
probably have seen
> > > me in the CoC using squeak on my seemingly exported display...
> > > 
> > > -- Dino
> > > 
> > > G–ran Hultgren wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi!
> > > > 
> > > > ---Ivan Brusic <ivan at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > > > > Hello fellow squeakers,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am unable to run Squeak on Linux.  There are two different
errors
> > > > which
> > > > > I get when trying to run Squeak:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) When using Ian's precompiled VM
(SqueakVM-2.3-i386-linux-2.0.36) or
> > > > >    using my own compiled VM (with the lastest sources) I get
the
> > > > following
> > > > >    error:
> > > > >    This visual class is not supported
> > > > 
> > > > This has to do with X Windows. I got the same problem when
trying to
> > > > get Squeak to work with VNC. After looking in the VM code
(sqXwindos.c
> > > > - see below) it showed that Squeak does not support every
possible X
> > > > configuration when it comes to colors.
> > > > 
> > > > I changed VNC to use PsuedoColors with 256 colors and everything
works
> > > > great. So I suggest that you check your colordepth that X uses,
if its
> > > > 256 you have to raise it to 65536 or change your color support
from
> > > > TrueColor/DirectColor to PseudoColor.
> > > > 
> > > > Exerpt from:
ftp://alix.inria.fr/pub/squeak/unix/Squeak/src/sqXWindow.c
> > > > ----
> > > > switch (stVisual->class)
> > > >     {
> > > >     case PseudoColor:
> > > >       if (stBitsPerPixel == 8)
> > > >         break;
> > > >       else
> > > >         {
> > > >           fprintf(stderr, "This visual class is not
supported\n");
> > > >           exit(1);
> > > >           return;
> > > >         }
> > > >     case TrueColor:
> > > >     case DirectColor:
> > > >       getMaskbit(stVisual->red_mask,   &stRNMask, &stRShift);
> > > >       getMaskbit(stVisual->green_mask, &stGNMask, &stGShift);
> > > >       getMaskbit(stVisual->blue_mask,  &stBNMask, &stBShift);
> > > >       if (stBitsPerPixel == 16)
> > > >         {
> > > >           stHasSameRGBMask16= (stVisual->red_mask   == (0x1f <<
10) &&
> > > >                                stVisual->green_mask == (0x1f <<
5) &&
> > > >                                stVisual->blue_mask  == (0x1f));
> > > >           break;
> > > >         }
> > > >       else if (stBitsPerPixel == 32)
> > > >         {
> > > >           stHasSameRGBMask32= (stVisual->red_mask   == (0xff <<
16) &&
> > > >                                stVisual->green_mask == (0xff <<
8) &&
> > > >                                stVisual->blue_mask  == (0xff));
> > > >           break;
> > > >         }
> > > >       else
> > > >         {
> > > >           fprintf(stderr, "This visual class is not
supported\n");
> > > >           exit(1);
> > > >           return;
> > > >         }
> > > >     case GrayScale:
> > > >     case StaticColor:
> > > >     case StaticGray:
> > > >     default:
> > > >       fprintf(stderr, "This visual class is not supported\n");
> > > >       exit(1);
> > > >       return;
> > > >     }
> > > > 
> > > > -----
> > > > 
> > > > So reading this correct I assume that 256 colors is OK in
PseudoColor
> > > > but when using TrueColor or DirectColor you need 65536 or ~2
million
> > > > colors (16 or 32 bits).
> > > > 
> > > > Wll, that's my two cents.
> > > > 
> > > > regards, G–ran
> > > > 
> > > > ===
> > > > G–ran Hultgren, gohu at rocketmail.com, icq#:6136722
> > > > GSM: +46 709 472152, http://195.22.65.4
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> > > > Than they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi
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> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Ivan Brusic                        |  "Computers are nothing but a
perfect
> > Graduate Student                   |   illusion of order" - Iggy Pop
> > College of Computing & GVU Center  |  
> > Georgia Institute of Technology    |  E-mail: ivan [at]
cc.gatech.edu
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Ivan Brusic                        |  "Computers are nothing but a
perfect
> Graduate Student                   |   illusion of order" - Iggy Pop
> College of Computing & GVU Center  |  
> Georgia Institute of Technology    |  E-mail: ivan [at] cc.gatech.edu