matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matthew Atterbury) (10/31/90)
Does anyone know the answer to any of the following?
does X run on the HP400 series workstations?
can any HP400 series w/s work with 2 or more screens (is it physically
possible to put more than one graphics card in the box? are the cards
independently addressible?, etc)
does anyone know if the X server for the HP 400 series does/can/could
support multiple screens (driven by the one mouse + keyboard)?
Many thanks ...
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ARPA: matt%bacchus.esa.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET "life? don't talk to me about life!"mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Mark Bradakis) (11/02/90)
In article <812@bacchus.esa.oz> matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matt Atterbury) writes: >Does anyone know the answer to any of the following? > does X run on the HP400 series workstations? Yes, it does. > can any HP400 series w/s work with 2 or more screens (is it physically > possible to put more than one graphics card in the box? are the cards > independently addressible?, etc) The 400t has no extra slots, but I think the 400s has two or three extra DIO-II slots, and could take one of the addressable 98550 cards, or perhaps an interface for a graphics engine. We only have 400t machines, so I can't say for sure. mjb. "With styling to cow the meanest 'street fighter', the Trans-Am Vitesse was an attempt at a full-blooded racer for Triumph's mid-range saloons. It was not a major success." mjb@hoosier.utah.edu
tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg) (11/02/90)
See my response in comp.sys.hp Thomas Gilg tomg@cv.hp.com
paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) (11/03/90)
>> can any HP400 series w/s work with 2 or more screens (is it physically >> possible to put more than one graphics card in the box? are the cards >> independently addressible?, etc) Any of the deskside 400's (and most 300's) will support multiple graphics heads; you just put the interface card into any available DIOII slot. We've done several combinations of 98731's, 05's, and 36's on a 433. It's not a perfect setup though. There's still only one hil loop (i.e., 1 keyboard) per cpu, so only 1 graphics head can be used interactively, say, for running X. Other heads on the system can only be used as graphics output devices. If you want to support multiple "X-stations" on a single HP cpu, you'll have to go w/ s800 machines. The 825/835 machines will support 1-4 displays, each w/ its own hil loop. -- Paul B. Booth (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3D/EYE, Inc., 2359 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850 voice: (607)257-1381 fax: (607)257-7335
darryl@hpuorfa.HP.COM (Darryl J. Coppenhaver) (11/17/90)
Posti#! rnews 1696 Relay-Version: version Notes 2.8.3 1990/04/18; site hpuorfa.HP.COM From: darryl@hpuorfa.HP.COM (Darryl J. Coppenhaver) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 20:26:44 GMT Date-Received: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 20:26:44 GMT Subject: Re: X on HP 400 series, multiple screens?> Message-ID: <410002@hpuorfa.HP.COM> Organization: Hewlett-Packard, SSR-Orlando Path: hpuorfa!darryl Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Posting-Version: version Notes 2.8.2 87/11/24; site hpuorfa.HP.COM References: <812@bacchus.esa.oz> I will do my best to address the questions........ >>Does anyone know the answer to any of the following? >> >> does X run on the HP400 series workstations? >> YES!!!!!!! >> can any HP400 series w/s work with 2 or more screens (is it physically >> possible to put more than one graphics card in the box? are the cards >> independently addressible?, etc) >> Yes! you can have multiple graphics cards in the 400s (the 400t does not have an open slot). >> does anyone know if the X server for the HP 400 series does/can/could >> support multiple screens (driven by the one mouse + keyboard)? >> The HP-UX X11 server will support multiple screens (4 I think) all controlled with one keyboard and mouse. You address the screens in the following manner: hostname:0.0 -- screen 0 running on
tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg) (11/24/90)
> It's not a perfect setup though. There's still only one hil loop > (i.e., 1 keyboard) per cpu, so only 1 graphics head can be used interactively, > say, for running X. Again, while there's only one HIL loop, it can support multiple keyboards and mice. Then using the Xndevices file, you can assign which keyboard/mouse gets assigned to what server. You can actually support three independent X stations using this supported scheme. Thomas Gilg tomg@cv.hp.com