Calcomp Drawing Board III

We have a Calcomp Drawing Board III hooked up to a Sun Sparc 5 which is
running Solaris 2.5 and Grass 4.15. Can anyone suggest what calcomp
digitizer driver we should use?

Also we are unable to start a Grass monitor from an Xserver which is
running CDE as the window manager. If I issue the following command
once grass has started: d.mon start=gisx1 I get the following error:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
  Serial number of failed request: 267
  Current serial number in output stream: 268

Our monitorcap file has entries like this:

gisx1:driver/XDRIVER:X-term display (gisx1): \
      /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1a /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1b \
      ::any terminal

and these work fine for Xterminals but not Xservers.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Steve Moore - Software Coordinator
              Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
              (513) 529-1452

The color map problem you describe is a common one. You must use XDRIVER24
to operate grass on a 24bpp display. The 24bpp display will not do a
colormap, no matter how hard you try, so it returns the error cannot
create colormap.

The display works on the Xterminals because they are mapped color
displays.

Good luck!

Angus Carr
Masters of Forestry student

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Steve Moore wrote:

We have a Calcomp Drawing Board III hooked up to a Sun Sparc 5 which is
running Solaris 2.5 and Grass 4.15. Can anyone suggest what calcomp
digitizer driver we should use?

Also we are unable to start a Grass monitor from an Xserver which is
running CDE as the window manager. If I issue the following command
once grass has started: d.mon start=gisx1 I get the following error:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request: 78 (X_CreateColormap)
  Serial number of failed request: 267
  Current serial number in output stream: 268

Our monitorcap file has entries like this:

gisx1:driver/XDRIVER:X-term display (gisx1): \
      /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1a /opt/grasstest/dev/fifo.1b \
      ::any terminal

and these work fine for Xterminals but not Xservers.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Steve Moore - Software Coordinator
              Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
              (513) 529-1452