Large Monitors for X Window under Macintosh A/UX

[Steve Lemke]

In article <1250 at noao.UUCP> tody at noao.edu (Doug Tody X217) writes:
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}I am considering adding a high resolution color or monochrome monitor to
}this system.  It appears that most third party hires monitors for the Mac
}support only MacOS; can anyone recommend a product which will also work
}with A/UX and X windows?  I will be getting the Apple version of X window,
}but have no information on the monitors it supports (probably only Apple
}monitors).  Perhaps the MIT release of X11.4 will include support for
}additional monitors under A/UX.

I am pleased to officially announce that the Radius 19" Color Display, when
connected to either a Radius Grey Scale/Color (8-bit) board or a Radius
DirectColor (16 or 24 bit) board, works with Apple's implementation of
X-Windows under A/UX 1.1.1.  I personally tested this earlier this week. The
DirectColor board requires ROM version 1.1 (on the video board; it should be
available from Radius Tech Support first thing next week).

Unfortunately, Apple's A/UX (and therefore X-Windows) does *NOT* support
16-bit or 24-bit modes on Macintosh video cards, so 8-bit mode is the most
colorful you can get for now, even with the DirectColor 24-bit board.  In
the future, hopefully Apple will bring 32-bit QuickDraw support to A/UX,
and also to X-Windows.

A/UX appears to run on whatever video card is leftmost in the Macintosh,
whether or not a monitor is connected, and without regard to which monitor
is selected as the "Menubar" monitor in MacOS.  However, under X-Windows,
multiple monitors are supported, and it is therefore possible to have one
or more Radius monitors combined with one or more Apple monitors.  See the
X-Windows documentation for details on how to select which monitors to use
and with what bit modes.

Steve Lemke
Engineering QA Department
Radius Inc.
(radius.com coming soon!)

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