[comp.sys.sun] Any RasterOps experience

andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) (03/22/91)

We where wondering if there should be somebody out there who has a
solution to the following problem with RasterOps cards on SunSparc.

We are using SunSparc1 & SunSparc1+, SunOS4.1 and OpenWindows 2.0 with
XView.

One of our goals is to show live true color video in an OW 2.0 window on a
SunSparc monitor. At the moment we have access to true color video with a
black & white _overlay_ (the windows & their content) or 8 bit (256) color
on the video & windows! We need true color video and at least 8 color
windows but 24 bit windows is preferred!

RasterOps currently support the following configurations:

		  	Window	Video
SunView			 1 bit	24 bit
			 8 bit	 8 bit
			 8 bit	24 bit
			24 bit	24 bit	(Just guess!)

OpenWindows2		 1 bit	24 bit
			 8 bit	 8 bit
			 Do you have the driver to put in here?

OpenWindows3		 1 bit	24 bit	(Just guess!)
			 8 bit	 8 bit	(Just guess!)
			 8 bit	24 bit	(Just rumors)
			24 bit	24 bit	(Just rumors)

If we used SunView instead, then there wouldn't be a problem, but we have
to stick to OpenWindows 2.0 - any suggestions/comments/...?

Leif Andrew
UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77                /

frank@decwrl.dec.com (04/17/91)

|I think the only solution is to get OpenWindows 3.0.  Beta version should
|have been out in March, the production version might be out in August.

> We where wondering if there should be somebody out there who has a
> solution to the following problem with RasterOps cards on SunSparc.