Graphics Administration Guide (July 2008)

The Configure Print Server item allows you to manage print servers. From this menu
item you can create, stop or remove print servers.
On systems that contain a mix of HP Visualize and OEM graphics cards, the Configure
How X Starts item allows you to choose on which graphics devices the X Server should
start. From this action, you can assign which of your configuration files to use as a
display connection - the X* screens file for HP Visualize graphics cards or the XF86Config
file with OEM graphics cards. Running independent X Servers on an HP Visualize
graphics device and an OEM graphics device simultaneously is not supported.
Specific XF86 server options can be set with the Modify Server Options menu item. See
the item for information on specific options.
If you have multiple OEM graphics display devices or a display card with two video
outputs, you can configure the X server to have multiple independent screens. Use the
Modify Multi-Screen Layout menu item to do this.
To configure a multi-screen layout, first select the devices you want to include. In the
X Server Configuration panel click the mouse on the first device, and [Ctrl]-click on
the others. All the devices you want to combine into a multi-screen configuration should
now be highlighted. Then use the Modify Multi-Screen Layout menu item in the Actions
menu to finish the configuration.
SLS is a mechanism for treating homogeneous multi-display configurations as a single
logical screen. This allows the moving/spanning of windows across multiple physical
monitors. The word homogeneous is included because SLS only works if the graphics
devices included in the SLS Configuration are of the same type.
Enabling an SLS configuration is similar to enabling a multi-screen layout. First, select
the devices you want to combine into an SLS configuration. In the X Server
Configuration panel, click the mouse on the first device, and [Ctrl]-click on the others.
All of the devices you want to combine into a multi-screen configuration should now
be highlighted. Then from the "Actions" menu, choose the Single Logical Screen (SLS)
-> Create SLS... menu item to finish the configuration. The "X Server Configuration"
window should now show a single icon denoting an SLS confguration.
The Modify Default Depth menu item lets you set the default depth of the framebuffer
to either 8 or 24 bits. Changing the default depth will also change the default visual.
Depth 8 will use a PseudoColor visual and depth 24 will use a TrueColor visual.
The second group of “Actions” menus can be thought of as screen actions. They will
be active depending on which screens have been chosen.
The Describe Screen and Identify Screen menu selections provide information about
the device. Identify Screen flashes the monitor that is connected to the graphics device.
The Modify Screens Options item contains options that are specific to each graphics
device. This list might be different for cards depending on the capabilities of each card.
12 configuring X Server on HP-UX (OEM graphics cards)