Running NIvisaic under Solaris gives "Visual class not supported" error

[David Morris]

After installing VISA for Solaris 2.5 on Sun Solaris 8, when starting NIvisaic, I get "Visual class not supported" error and program exits.

[Randy Solomonson]

Hello-

VISAIC and VIC cannot run under TrueColor and DirectColor visual classes, because of the way we use colors internally. This is the problem with NIvisaic. This can be confirmed by running 'xdpyinfo' in the display of the app, and checking the classes of each visual that is supported. If one of the four supported is present, the application will be able to run regardless of whether it is the default visual. However, it is not uncommon for only one visual to be supported, especially with PC versions of X.

Randy Solomonson
Application Engineer
National Instruments

[Mac-g]

Randy- Great explanation of the problem! I have the same error with Redhat Linux 7.3 trying to run both NIvisaic and visaconf. Both apps run great under Redhat 7.2 on another machine. Do you have a solution for the problem?