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<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope someone can
help me. My sysadmin built and installed xvfb on a </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Solaris 5.8 machine.
I am tying to access it from a java servlet running inside</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tomcat 4.1.27, JVM
1.4.1_01-b01. Xvfb was initially started by the Tomcat user</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>like
so:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
face="Courier New">/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1280x1024x8 -fbdir /tmp
&</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>My servlet creates a
java Frame object and then attempts to create an Image in
it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Headless mode
wouldn't work, due to a conflict with a needed JAR file. I receive the
following</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>error when I try to
associate the screen resource with it:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT
face="Courier New">sun.java2d.InvalidPipeException: Unsupported bit depth:
4<BR>at sun.awt.X11SurfaceData.getSurfaceType(X11SurfaceData.java:424)<BR>at
sun.awt.X11GraphicsConfig.getSurfaceType(X11GraphicsConfig.java:116)<BR>at
sun.awt.X11SurfaceData.createData(X11SurfaceData.java:284)<BR>at
sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.initialize(MComponentPeer.java:193)<BR>at
sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.init(MComponentPeer.java:225)<BR>at
sun.awt.motif.MWindowPeer.init(MWindowPeer.java:93)<BR>at
sun.awt.motif.MFramePeer.(MFramePeer.java:58)<BR>at
sun.awt.motif.MToolkit.createFrame(MToolkit.java:197)<BR>at
java.awt.Frame.addNotify(Frame.java:469)<BR>. . .</FONT><BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried setting
"-pixdepths 4" on the cmd line, but receive the same error. I am not
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>prescribing a pixel
depth of 4 bpp in my code, so it must have something to do </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>with xvfb, or a
display driver. Does xvfb use a display driver, or is it the display
driver?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there some other
setting needed in the build process? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone explain
what happens when the X server starts up, what resources</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial size=2>it grabs,
etc?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=234034218-20072004><FONT face=Arial
size=2>jp</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>