[Xastir] Map Problem

[George D. Nincehelser]

OK.  Got it.

My X configuration defaults to 16-bit mode, but VNC on my server is
defaulting to 8-bit.

A solution is to run vncserver with a depth of 16 (e.g. #vncserver -depth
16).  Everything works fine when I do that.

I guess ImageMagick dithers down to 8 bits, but for some reason xastir
doesn't.

One question, though.  Is it possible for xastir to work without X running?
What I want to eventually get to is a system that publishes an image
periodically on my web server.  I don't really require X day-to-day for
anything else.  I guess I could keep the VNC server running, but is there a
better way?

Thanks for the assist.  I'll probably have more questions as I try to get
the APRS stuff working.

George


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "George D. Nincehelser" <george at nincehelser.com>
Cc: <brian.heaton at janusresearch.com>; "Xastir Users" <xastir at xastir.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Map Problem


> On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, George D. Nincehelser wrote:
>
> > Ok.  We're getting somewhere now.
> >
> > I do see the image file in ~/.xastir.tmp.  I can display it through
> > ImageMagick. It's correct, and it updates.  It's still totally black
through
> > xastir, though.  The map intensity seems to be set to 100%.
> >
> > I'm running this via VNC...could that somehow be intefering with
xastir's
> > display?  This server is headless, so I can't check it out that way.
>
> That's a possibility.  Another possibility is that your color-depth
> isn't good for Xastir.  16-bit is what I run all the time.  I
> believe others have it running at 24-bit.  Check your Windows and
> your X11 color-depth.
>
> Also try other sources of data, like tigermap.geo and USRadar.geo.
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U     archer at eskimo dot com
> Arlington, WA, USA http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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