From: Fred Kleinsorge [kleinsorge@star-dot-zko-dot-dec-dot-com]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:59 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: automatic screensaver

To my knowledge, there isn't a single SPX developer working for the company,
and hasn't been for many long years - the code was writen something like 14
years ago.

The logicals are handled by the DDX's, not the DIX.  Not all servers support
programatic changing of depth or visuals.  In fact I don't believe *any* of
the VAX server DDX's support those specific logical.

The SPX-xx was supposed to be a 3D card, and so the developers wrote it to
use the 24-bit depth and TrueColor as the defaults.  Try something like:


$def/sys/exec DECW$SCN_24PLANE_PSEUDOCOLOR 1


This "should' get you the 8-bit pseudo color visual as the default (if my
brain cells still are sparking).



"Vance Haemmerle" <vance@toyvax.Glendale.CA.US> wrote in message
news:3E3051F8.67A151CB@toyvax.Glendale.CA.US...
> Fred Kleinsorge wrote:
>
> > If you want to stay with increasingly old versions of VMS - heck I'm
sure
> > there are still happy V4.7 users out there - that's fine - but don't be
> > complaining when new things aren't available for it.
>
>   How about when old things still don't work?
>
>   I don't know how many posts I did to vmsnet.sdk.openvms.fieldtest
(several
> anyway) during the VMS 7.2 and 7.3 field tests reporting that the VAX
X-display
> server does not work setting the default visual and that the documentation
> was messed up, re: the name of the Symbol do accomplish this.  Never got a
> reply and it never got fixed.
>
>   There's applications that don't like a 24-plane visual and
> if you have a VAXstation with an SPXgt card, that's what you get
> and you can't change the default visual it to Pseudocolor despite what
> the Docs say.  And the docs are wrong; they have the symbol as
> "DECW$DEFAULT_VISUAL_CLASS" while the example has
> "DECW$SEVER_DEFAULT_VISUAL_CLASS".  Both of which are wrong.  The docs
> also only say it doesn't work on VMS 5.5-2.  Nothing about ALPHA only...
> which wouldn't make sense anyway.
> See:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/doc/73final/6300/6300pro_002.html#config_7
> Section 3.2.2.
>
>   On Alpha the symbol in DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM is
> DECW$SERVER_DEFAULT_VISUAL_CLASS (SERVER not SEVER).  If you search the
> DECW EXE files in SYS$LIBRARY you can find this string in
DECW$SERVER_DIX.EXE.
> However there's no such string (or anything "VISUAL_CLASS") in this or
other
> server exe's on VAX.  I wouldn't think this would be such a difficult
> thing to fix... setting the default visual.  I never reported it through
> regular support channels because the SPXgt card was on a hobbiest machine.
> I figured buying the External Field Tests and reporting in the newgroup
> would get attention.  But they never amounted to anything.
>
> Patch anyone?  Or is the VAX display server beyond maintence?
>
> --
> Vance Haemmerle