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From: drake@sd2.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Use the whole screen on color monitor for AIX/X windows?
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Date: 30 Aug 89 18:38:21 GMT
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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