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From: kelso@seas.gwu.edu (John Kelso)
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Subject: Re: Help needed with XGIF gif viewer
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Date: 14 Jun 90 13:23:48 GMT
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In article <1990Jun12.151942.9042@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> phil@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson) writes:
>I'm trying to get xgif to work on an HP 300 system.  xgif is a colour gif
>viewer for x windows.  It runs only on colour workstations with at least 8
>bits-per-pixel.  I got what I assume to be the latest version of the sources
>(patch level 1) and it compiles ok, but when I run it it reads the gif file,
>creates a destination window, zaps the colour map (if I told it to), but then
>falls over when it is about to draw the image.  The error reported is a failure
>in XPutImage (bad parameters or somesuch thing).  Has anyone got a gif viewer
>working on an HPUX system?  Anyone care to suggest what might be wrong.  As a
>newcomer to X windows stuff (I use the Mac much more...) I only have limited
>experience with X Windows and this error has got me beat!

Are you sure that your HP has 8 bits-per-pixel?  I ran into the same
problem that you did, and found out the reason it did not work on my
workstation, but did on all of our others, is that my workstation only
has 6 bits-per-pixel.  You can find out by noting the type of bit map
display you have- this is displayed when you reboot- and looking it up
on page 9-3 of the "Using the X Window System" manual.  Mine is a
98549, for example.

Hope this helps,

John
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