[ REQ 5348]: Display depth

[wheeler at cygnus.ucs.indiana.edu]

Dear Sirs:

By way of introduction, my name is William Wheeler.
I'm a faculty member in the mathematics department
at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. 
I attended the 2 day graphics seminar at the
Geometry Center last August that was offered just before
the AMS-MAA meeting.

I am currently running Geomview on several machines
here at IU.  Two of the machines are  IBM XStations,
which are  X terminals rather than computers themselves.
So, Geomview, rather than running on the Xstation,
is actually executing on an RS6000 and displaying
on the XStations.  One of the Xstations has a color
display, and everything is working satisfactorily on
that one.  But one of the Xstations has a B/W monochrome
display, and Geomview refuses to run on this display even
though the display is configured to have a depth of 8.

May I please request your advice on how to rectify the problem.

Below please find the output from xdpyinfo for this
Xstation.

Thank you for your help.  Please send any reply to

   wheeler at indiana.edu.

W. Wheeler

=========== Output from xdpyinfo ==========================


name of display:    129.79.94.113:0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    AGE Logic, Inc.
vendor release number:    4
maximum request size:  16384 longwords (65536 bytes)
motion buffer size:  0
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    2
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 9, maximum 141
number of extensions:    3
    SHAPE
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    AGE-DEBUGAIDS-NONSTANDARD
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1024x1024 pixels (356x285 millimeters)
  resolution:    73x91 dots per inch
  depths (2):    1, 8
  root window id:    0x23
  depth of root window:    8 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x21
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 255
  options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
  current input event mask:    0xd0001d
    KeyPressMask             ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask        
    EnterWindowMask          SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask       
    ColormapChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    1
  default visual id:  0x20
  visual:
    visual id:    0x20
    class:    GrayScale
    depth:    8 planes
    size of colormap:    256 entries
    red, green, blue masks:    0x90, 0xff140a80, 0xff06fdc0
    significant bits in color specification:    24 bits


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