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From: chan@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: multi plane <> grayscale ??
Message-ID: <1210028@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 90 18:28:26 GMT
References: <1990Feb23.150522.22194@axion.bt.co.uk>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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> I'm running X on an HP multiplane monochrome workstation. I thought this
> meant it would be a grayscale machine yet all the colours are either
> balck or white. Was I wrong about this or didn't I configure the build
> properly. And if I was wrong, what is the purpose of a multi plane machine?

I'm not sure what hardware you're talking about. To my knowledge, we
make two monochrome display systems for our HP-UX workstations:

	98544B   1024x768
	98548A   1280x1024

Both of these are single plane. Strangely enough, the 98548A supports
a GreyScale visual, but it's still single plane.

The number that would identify your graphics system is on the card in
the SPU. Although for monochrome, the monitor number does uniquely 
determine the display hardware (98788A monitor goes with 98548 card;
98786A monitor goes with 98544B).

			-- Chan Benson
			HP Fort Collins