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X11R5 on Amiga UNIX and A2410 card

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Kriston Rehberg

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Dec 1, 1993, 10:34:48 AM12/1/93
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Has there been an X server created for X11R5 under Amiga UNIX using
the A2410 card?

I understand I can get X11R5 clients to compile and run, and can get a
monochrome X server to compile and run, but has the X11R5 server been
done for the A2410 graphics card? Or the other DMI Resolver one?

Thanks,

Kris

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Rob Healey

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Dec 1, 1993, 12:58:57 PM12/1/93
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In article <REHBERG.93...@legend.owego.ny.us>,

Kriston Rehberg <reh...@paladin.Owego.NY.US> wrote:
>Has there been an X server created for X11R5 under Amiga UNIX using
>the A2410 card?
>I understand I can get X11R5 clients to compile and run, and can get a
>monochrome X server to compile and run, but has the X11R5 server been
>done for the A2410 graphics card? Or the other DMI Resolver one?
>
The 2.1 tape has an X11R5 server for A2410 and DMI Resolver I
think.

The A2410 server is slow, not sure if that's the cards fault,
X code fault or OS fault. The port was never really finished so
there are problems with various things.

I'd say if you want to do color X on Amiga try one of the
Amiga frame buffer cards, Retina, Piccilo, ??? on NetBSD in
1 or 2 months after the port has settled down a bit.

-Rob

Kriston Rehberg

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Dec 1, 1993, 2:49:09 PM12/1/93
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In article <CHDBA...@aggregate.com> rhe...@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:

> The A2410 server is slow, not sure if that's the cards fault,
> X code fault or OS fault. The port was never really finished so
> there are problems with various things.

Is it any slower than, say, the A2410 server that's supplied for X11R4
that comes on the tape (and the patched one on Aminet sites)? If it's
any faster than that one, I'll take it. The supplied one for X11R4 is
pretty slow. If the X11R5 one is faster then I'd take it.

Andy Heffernan

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Dec 1, 1993, 6:24:48 PM12/1/93
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In article <CHDBA...@aggregate.com> rhe...@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:
>In article <REHBERG.93...@legend.owego.ny.us>,
>Kriston Rehberg <reh...@paladin.Owego.NY.US> wrote:
>>Has there been an X server created for X11R5 under Amiga UNIX using
>>the A2410 card?
>>I understand I can get X11R5 clients to compile and run, and can get a
>>monochrome X server to compile and run, but has the X11R5 server been
>>done for the A2410 graphics card? Or the other DMI Resolver one?
>>
> The 2.1 tape has an X11R5 server for A2410 and DMI Resolver I
> think.

The 2.1 tape has R5 source code, patched up to some level, plus
source code for TIGA color support from ULowell and Commodore. I spent
some time a few months ago working on it. It looked to me that the
main difference between the R4 and R5 TIGA code was that the R5 code
had much of the A2410 support ripped out in favor of the Resolver. I
got the server running and mostly working; attempting to put a bitmap
on the root window would kill the server, for example, and using the
SHAPE extension produced horrible results. The colors were still all
screwed up in xv, but that is undoubtedly a problem in the tigagm.coff
code, which we don't have the source for. I eventually got tired of
trying to figure it out and moved on to other things.

Markus Illenseer

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Dec 3, 1993, 12:58:44 PM12/3/93
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In article <CHDBA...@aggregate.com>, rhe...@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:
[...]

|>
|> I'd say if you want to do color X on Amiga try one of the
|> Amiga frame buffer cards, Retina, Piccilo, ??? on NetBSD in
|> 1 or 2 months after the port has settled down a bit.

What if he is depending on using Amix? To my knowledge, there is a
X11 driver for Amix for the Picasso II gfx board. Adress to Village Tronic
please.

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Stephen W. Thomas

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Dec 5, 1993, 10:29:16 AM12/5/93
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In article <CHH0...@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>,

Does anyone know if there is a X11 Amix driver for the Retina?

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Ackers Mattias

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Dec 7, 1993, 6:24:44 PM12/7/93
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Sorry about my last post, had some trouble with my terminal.


/Mattias.

Ackers Mattias

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Dec 7, 1993, 6:22:56 PM12/7/93
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s...@garble.affinity.mn.org (Stephen W. Thomas) writes:

>In article <CHH0...@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>,
>Markus Illenseer <mar...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
>>In article <CHDBA...@aggregate.com>, rhe...@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:
>>[...]
>>|>
>>|> I'd say if you want to do color X on Amiga try one of the
>>|> Amiga frame buffer cards, Retina, Piccilo, ??? on NetBSD in

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>> What if he is depending on using Amix? To my knowledge, there is a
>> X11 driver for Amix for the Picasso II gfx board. Adress to Village Tronic

>4740 Hodgson Road FAX: (612) 483-4069

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