Use the whole screen on color monitor for AIX/X windows?

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4 total messages Started by Andrew Purshottam Tue, 29 Aug 1989 10:08

#283

Author: Andrew Purshottam
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1989 10:08

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Anyone know how to get X windows to use all of the 
surface area of the PC/RT color monitor?

Thanks,
	Andy

Re: Use the whole screen on color monitor for AIX/X windows?

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Author: Sam Drake
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 18:38

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> Anyone know how to get X windows to use all of the 
> surface area of the PC/RT color monitor?

You don't say which monitor you're using...I assume you are using the
Megapel adapter with the IBM 5081 display rather than the 5154 display.

The Megapel adapter supports a 1024x1024 display field.  The 5081 monitor
has square pixels, and is wider than it is tall.  So there is some
unused glass surface on the 5081 display. 

There is a card from another vendor, the matrox PG-1281, which can be used
in the RT as a replacement for the Megapel card.  This card supports 
1280x1024.  There is an RPQ (non-standard hardware upgrade) that allows the
5081 display to run in 1280x1024 mode, and a PRPQ (non-standard programming
support) that allows AIX/RT to drive all of the above.  Talk to your
IBM marketing folks for details.

I am not an official spokesman, nothing I say is correct.  :-)

Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center

Re: Use the whole screen on color monitor for AIX/X windows?

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Author: /4194303
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 21:37

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In article <16639@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andrew Purshottam) writes:
>Anyone know how to get X windows to use all of the 
>surface area of the PC/RT color monitor?
If you are using a mpel adapter then X can't do anything about it.  The
megapel adapter doesn't fill the monitor...

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Re: Use the whole screen on color monitor for AIX/X windows?

#294

Author: Allan D. Griefer
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 03:35

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In a recent append, andy@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andrew Purshottam) writes...
>Anyone know how to get X windows to use all of the 
>surface area of the PC/RT color monitor?

If you mean the 5081 Display, it's actually capable of 1280x1024, but the
Megapel adapter is only set for 1024x1024.  You can get a Matrox adapter and
an IBM RPQ to drive it at 1280x1024.

Opinions are strictly my own,
Allan D. Griefer,       IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
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