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Article #9232Re: How to discover screen depth
From: Doug Arnold
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 07:43
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 07:43
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>> Is there an easy way to find out the screen depth?
I use the following simple program, which I call displaytype. It works
like this:
emmy% displaytype
Sun 2 or 3 color 900 x 1152 x 8 pixels
emmy% rsh athena displaytype
Sun 2 or 3 monochrome 900 x 1152 x 1 pixels
There should be a better way to handle color 3/60's or other machines with
two framebuffers correctly. It currently reports monochrome. Perhaps
someone knows how to do it?
-- Doug Arnold (dna@emmy.umd.edu or arnold@eneevax.umd.edu)
/*
* displaytype -- identify type of display connected to Sun workstation
* compile with "cc -o displaytype displaytype.c"
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sun/fbio.h>
extern int errno;
char *displaytype[] =
{
"Sun 1 monochrome",
"Sun 1 color",
"Sun 2 or 3 monochrome",
"Sun 2 or 3 color",
"Sun 2 or 3 graphics processor",
"type unknown",
"type unknown",
"Sun 4 monochrome",
"Sun 4 color",
""
};
main()
{
int fd;
struct fbtype fbinfo; /* struct for frame buffer info */
fd = open("/dev/fb", O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0)
{
printf("Error opening /dev/fb, error #%d\n", errno);
exit(2);
}
if (ioctl(fd, FBIOGTYPE, &fbinfo) == -1)
{
printf("Ioctl error on /dev/fb, error #%d\n", errno);
exit(3);
}
printf("%s %d x %d x %d pixels\n",
displaytype[fbinfo.fb_type],
fbinfo.fb_height, fbinfo.fb_width, fbinfo.fb_depth);
exit(0);
}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: dna@emmy.umd.edu (Doug Arnold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: How to discover screen depth Message-ID: <8811142048.AA08370@emmy.umd.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 07:43:13 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: Sun-Spots@Rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 64 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 88 15:48:45 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 24, message 6 of 12