davidp@labtam.oz (David Purdue) (07/23/90)
First: many thanks to all those who contacted me, including the
one Sun employee who I assume, from the phrasing of his note,
forgot that I am a customer.
Several points arose:
(1) My mistake, the GX is, in fact, an 8 bit frame-buffer; but I still have
a GXP to contend with.
(2) Many people suggested I look at OpenWindows II. Unfortunately
Sun has already told me that OpenWindows will not be supported
on the GXP. Ever.
(3) It seems no-one has tried to port the sample server to the
GXP. It will run on the GXP if you use a device driver that
gets the GXP to pretend to be an 8-bit or 1-bit framebuffer.
As one person noted, that represents something of a waste
of hardware.
Which seems to only leave these options open:
- port the sample server myself (if the time can be devoted to that)
- buy a third party 24-bit framebuffer that has an X port.
- wait for Sun to release a 24-bit framebuffer with OpenWindows
support.
Thanks once again to all who responded.
DavidP
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