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Article #293(Sparcstation) GX questions
From: Ian D. Kemmish
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 13:09
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 1990 13:09
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I'm just porting X11r4 to use the GX graphics accelerator on a SS1 (or is it GFX? - it's a cg6 framebuffer anyway!). It works really well, but there are a couple of minor questions: 1) The THC appears to support a hardware cursor, but I can't find any way to set the cursor colormap. Am I limited to black and white, or do I have to wiggle the Brooktree's control lines myself, or is there a civilised way to do it? 2) Looking at the register names, it *looks* as if I'm actually talking to the alpha-planes of a 32-plane display. Was the chipset designed with decent colour displays in mind? Is such a framebuffer on the cards? A machine the price of a SS1 (plus a little but for the extra VRAMS) with *real*, *accelerated* colour would be a VERY attractive proposition..... PS: After this, comes the research 3D window manager... Anyone with any experience of talking to the transform engine? -- Ian D. Kemmish Tel. +44 767 601 361 18 Durham Close uad1077@dircon.UUCP Biggleswade ukc!dircon!uad1077 Beds SG18 8HZ United Kingd uad1077%dircon@ukc.ac.uk
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!dircon!uad1077 From: uad1077@dircon.uucp (Ian D. Kemmish) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: (Sparcstation) GX questions Keywords: GX,sun,X11,accelerators Message-ID: <1990Sep17.130951.13355@dircon.uucp> Date: 17 Sep 90 13:09:51 GMT Sender: uad1077@dircon.uucp Reply-To: uad1077@dircon.uucp (Ian D. Kemmish) Organization: The Direct Connection, UK Lines: 24