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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X11 vs. 98710 display
Message-ID: <7370302@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 91 17:21:28 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.212605.13160@cs.ucla.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: > I am having trouble getting X to display on my 98710 display.  I have
    > no trouble with X and the 98700 or 98720 displays.  Starbase has no
    > trouble with the 98710 display.  I am running HPUX 7.0 on a 9000/350.

Some confusion here; the 98710A is an accelerator that bolts onto the
98700A/H "CX" display controller, which itself is interfaced to the host 300
via a 98287A card.

The 98700A/H display subsystem, with or without 98710A accelerator, is not
supported by X-windows.  There are no X drivers for it, beyond an unreleased
prototype X10 version, which is probably long gone.  Moreover, if it were
supported, you would not be happy with the performance.  The architecture of
the 98700 was optimized for vector operations, and reportedly provided very
slow raster operations when tested with X10.

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