X on two screens for AIX PS/2!!!
Jeff Weinstein
jsw at xhead.esd.sgi.com
Thu Mar 15 15:26:23 AEST 1990
Back when I was still at IBM I added code to the AIX PS/2
X server to support a multi-headed server, that ran on
both screens at once if you had both vga and 8514
attached to your machine. I was later told by management
to remove the code from the product, for various "business"
reasons.
Today I was browsing the IBM server code after seeing the 8514
source code post in comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt, and found that the
X server code that went out on the X11R4 tape does include
the two magic lines to support multiple screens.
So, if you have an 8514/A adapter, with 8514 monitor attached,
and a monitor attached to your vga port, and you are running
X11R4 under AIX on your PS/2, then you are in luck. Start the
server thusly:
Xibm -8514 -vga
It is important that the -8514 flag comes before the -vga flag.
--Jeff
Jeff Weinstein - X Protocol Police
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Entry Systems Division, Window Systems
jsw at xhead.esd.sgi.com
Any opinions expressed above are mine, not sgi's.
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