jonnyg@ROVER.UMD.EDU (Jon Greenblatt) (03/07/89)
I just got my RISC card for my IBM model 80. I am running it with a 8514 display with 1024x768 pixels and 256 colors out of a pallete of a million. The entire X server was compiled using HC2.1 on the straight mit X11R3 release with patches 1-8 installed. The dribbles I was experiencing with the APA16 display are not there with the 8514 driver. I have always been impressed with the color port of X11 to the RT but now that I have one myself I am completely impressed. The color support is very fast and the server is complete. All the clients and demos work perfectly with HC2.1 except for a slight problem with xeyes which can be tricked into working correctly. NOTE I am using the HC2.1 compiler from the DEC 22'nd release of AOS. Earlier versions of HC2.1 do not work completely on the MIT core distribution. AIX also supports color but I am very impressed with AOS 4.3 BSD. With the RISC card you can run unix, have X Windows, and access your dos file system from unix. In case you are looking for code that makes the 8514 driver so fast you will end up looking at a object file distributed with the MIT release that has no source. IBM is not giving the fast code out but at least they are making it publicaly available for use. JonnyG.
guarna@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (03/09/89)
This sounds very interesting...is there someway I can get some information about the availability/pricing of this card and AOS? (I also have a model 80 that I would like to get AOS running on) Vince Guarna University of Illinois (217) 244-0071
alberto@tove.umd.edu (Jose Alberto Fernandez R) (03/11/89)
There is a way in X11R3 to specify the position of an icon for a general application? Xterm has the =,%, etc. prefix for the geometry specification, but this is a feature of XTERM, not a general thing like '-iconify' or the '-geometry' specification itself. If not such a feature exist, I propose to include it in the new R4 release. For all of you how like to have many things running in your default configuration will be very nice. For example, the XMH, XMAN, XCALC, etc will be started as icons in the places you want. ------ Other question I have is what is the diference between the specification of default properties in `.Xdefaults' and `.Xresources'. I am using `.Xresources' but some applications ignores this defaults. I understand that the `.Xresources'values are load on the server, to speed some things, but this must be transparent for the application program. -- Jose Alberto. :/ \ Jose Alberto Fernandez R | INTERNET: alberto@tove.umd.edu :| o o | Dept. of Computer Sc. | :| ^ | Univesity of Marylad | :\ \_/ / College Park, MD 20742 |