[Vis5d-users] Re: remote display question

[Mike S. <st...@hp...>]

| I suspect that your vis5d on the SGI is compiled to use
| OpenGL, and is talking to an HP with PEX.  Try recompiling
| vis5d with 'make irix6-x'.  It'll be a lot slower this way,
| but the root of your problem may be incompatible 3-D graphics
| libraries.  Good luck, Bill

| > > X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
| > > operation)
| > >   Major opcode of failed request:  131 (X3D-PEX)
| > >   Minor opcode of failed request:  2 (PEX_GetEnumeratedTypeInfo)
| > >   Value in failed request:  0xffff8700
| > >   Serial number of failed request:  83
| > >   Current serial number in output stream:  83

  That error looks like vis5d is running on an HP system and compiled for
PEX.  In that case you want to recompile it on the HP to use OpenGL.
The OpenGL version should work better than PEX for both local and remote
display on any HP system shipped since late 1997.

Mike Stroyan, mik...@fc...