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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