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From: hara@ASC.SLB.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Does XUI support dual screen?
Message-ID: <9010221938.AA10995.hara@ika.ASC.SLB.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 19:38:17 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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>For starters, you will never find a Sun 4/330 with a cgsix in it, cgsix
>is an S-BUS product that goes in Sun 4/60 and 4/65s (SparcStations).  
>Maybe you mean a cgeight, which is the GX (???) 8 bit accelerated 
>VME-BUS product.  At the risk of speaking for the consortium, the MIT 
>server sun ddx layer, which I understand was written by Sun for MIT, 
>does not support the cgeight.  Someone did post some source in 
>comp.sources.x for a cgeight server.  Similarly, there is no support 
>in the MIT server or the Sun X11/NeWS server for cgnine GXP (???) 24 bit
>accellerated VME-BUS product.
>

	 Anyways/somehow, MIT X11R4 server works (seems to work) on Sun4/330 
	with two color screens (cgtwo,cgsix).

>
>With regards to Dec, their product engineers told me/us that their server
>does support multiple screens.  However, none of their hardware supports 
>multiple screens.  Yet another case of software surpassing the capabilities
>of hardware.
>

	 We're NOT using DEC's server, but using MIT's original server.
	Generally, it works fine on dual screen (Sun4/330 cgtwo+cgsix), but if 
	I run some application	which uses XUI (DecWindows) on the second 
	screen, we get some X protocol errors such as "Bad Match" or "Bad GC"
	when drawing text widgets.  Of cource, if I display all pictures from 
	the program on the first screen, it works perfectly.

	Any clues?

	Kenzo Hara
	hara@asc.slb.com