GAG11.book Page 1 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM graphics administration guide for HP-UX 11.
GAG11.book Page 2 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM legal notice The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard assumes no responsibility for the use or reliability of its software on equipment that is not furnished by Hewlett-Packard. This document contains proprietary information that is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
GAG11.book Page 1 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM Contents 1. preface document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X*screens file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GAG11.book Page 2 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM Contents the XF86Config file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the XF86Config file format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ServerLayout” section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Files” section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GAG11.book Page 3 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM Contents input devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . supported keyboard drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . supported keyboard options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GAG11.book Page 4 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM Contents examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 printing a key map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
GAG11.book Page 5 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM 1 preface The purpose of this document is to collect, in one place, all the information necessary to configure and administer graphics cards supported in HP-UX workstations and servers running the 11.00 and 11i version 1 (11.11) Operating Systems.
GAG11.book Page 6 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM preface NOTE Previous versions of this document contained information for 3D graphics Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are now obsolete.
GAG11.book Page 7 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM preface document conventions document conventions Below is a list of the typographical conventions used in this document: ls /usr/include Verbatim computer literals are in computer font. Text in this style is letter-for-letter verbatim and, depending on the context, should be typed in exactly as specified, or is named exactly as specified. In every case... Emphasized words are in italic type. . . .to configure a Single Logical Screen. . .
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GAG11.book Page 9 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM 2 configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) This chapter documents information specific to the HP X Server.
GAG11.book Page 10 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) on how to configure the X Server and includes a list of supported configurations. For each supported graphics device, device-dependent configuration information is provided. Information specific to a new release of the X Server, beyond the scope of the general information in this document, can be found in the HP-UX Release Notes located in /usr/share/doc.
GAG11.book Page 11 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration X Server configuration Configuration of the X Server is supported through SAM via an icon titled “X Server Configuration.” This icon resides either at SAM’s top level or under the top-level “Display” icon. This location is determined by the version of the HP-UX operating system (later HP-UX releases will place “X Server Configuration” under the “Display” folder).
GAG11.book Page 12 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration X*screens file For manual changes, please refer to the sample files in the /etc/X11/ directory. Three files of particular interest are the X0screens, X0devices, and X0pointerkeys files. description of the X*screens configuration file This file belongs in /etc/X11/X*screens, where “*” is the display number of the server.
GAG11.book Page 13 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration {SingleLogicalScreen . . .< device_nameN>} [DefaultVisual [Class ] [Depth ] [Layer ] [Transparent]] [MonitorSize < units>] [MinimumMonitorPowerSaveLevel ] [ScreenOptions . . . ] Brackets (“[“and “]”) denote optional items.
GAG11.book Page 14 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration The X Server delays loading of some X extensions until the first protocol request to the given extension is received. Specifying this server option forces all extensions to be loaded at X Server startup. The 11.00 X Server patches shipped after July, 1997 perform delayed loading of X extensions.
GAG11.book Page 15 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration MinimumMonitorPowerSaveLevel Specify the minimum power save level to be used by the monitor during screen blanking. You must specify a level of 0 -3 If the option is not used, the default is level 0. On devices that do not support DPMS, this option will be ignored.
GAG11.book Page 16 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Figure 2-2 Two physical displays, two separate screens :0.0 /dev/crt0 • :0.1 /dev/crt1 This sample X*screens file could be used on a system using HP VISUALIZE-FXE with a 17-inch monitor. In this example, the GraphicsSharedMemorySize is decreased to 1 Mbyte in order to reduce the swap space requirements of the system.
GAG11.book Page 17 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Screen /dev/crt DefaultVisual Transparent The display diagram would be the same as that of the “Results of Minimal Legal X*screens File” configuration, above. • This sample X*screens file could be used on a system with a HP VISUALIZE-FXE graphics device.
GAG11.book Page 18 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Figure 2-3 Two physical displays, single logical screen (1x2) :0.0 /dev/crt0 /dev/crt1 • These sample X*screens entries could be used on a system with four homogeneous graphics devices. Assuming the first device is associated with the device file “/dev/crt0”, the second device is associated with the device file “/dev/crt1”, etc.
GAG11.book Page 19 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Figure 2-5 Four physical displays, single logical screen (4x1) /dev/crt0 /dev/crt1 :0.0 /dev/crt2 /dev/crt3 SingleLogicalScreen 2 2 /dev/crt0 /dev/crt1 /dev/crt2 /dev/crt3 Figure 2-6 Four physical displays, single logical screen (2x2) :0.
GAG11.book Page 20 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Screen /dev/crt0 SingleLogicalScreen 1 2 /dev/crt1 /dev/crt2 Figure 2-7 Three physical displays, screen plus single logical screen(1x2) :0.0 /dev/crt0 :0.0 /dev/crt2 /dev/crt1 miscellaneous topics double buffer extensions DBE is an extension to the X Server that provides a double-buffering Application Programming Interface (API).
GAG11.book Page 21 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration determining swap performance The DBE API does not allow users to determine if double-buffering in a visual is through software or hardware. However, the API does provide a way to determine relative swapping performance on a per-visual basis.
GAG11.book Page 22 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration The following table is a description of the states that are defined by VESA. The Power Savings column indicates (roughly) the level of power savings achieved in the given state. The Recovery Time is the amount of time that the screen takes to return to a usable state when the screen saver is turned off (by pressing a key or the moving the mouse).
GAG11.book Page 23 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration stored in the shared memory segment. In all other respects, shared memory pixmaps behave the same as ordinary pixmaps and can be modified by the usual Xlib routines. In addition, it is possible to change the contents of these pixmaps directly without the use of Xlib routines merely by modifying the pixmap data.
GAG11.book Page 24 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Multi-Screen A configuration in which a single X Server with a mouse and keyboard drives multiple graphics devices (where each display is a different X Screen) concurrently while only allowing the cursor, not windows, to be moved between displays. Device #1 SPU Device #2 host:0.1 (1280x1024) host:0.
GAG11.book Page 25 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration multi-screen support The list of supported multi-display configurations is rather large, and it changes whenever a new graphics device is introduced.
GAG11.book Page 26 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration Note that if your machine has only one graphics device, the “Modify Multi-Screen Layout” menu option does not even appear, since multiple devices cannot occur in a single-device context. Note also that DHA (Direct Hardware Access) is supported in a window that spans multiple screens.
GAG11.book Page 27 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) X Server configuration • • • • The login screen. The Front Panel. Window move and resize boxes. The screen lock dialog. This behavior is the result of HP CDE’s naive assumption that it is running against one large screen; it centers these windows accordingly.
GAG11.book Page 28 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) hp Visualize- FXE, FX5 and FX10 device-dependent information hp Visualize- FXE, FX5 and FX10 device-dependent information This section includes information on the HP VISUALIZE-FXE/5/10 graphics devices. The HP VISUALIZE-FXE/5/10 has 8 overlay planes, 48 image planes a 24-bit z buffer and 4 hardware colormaps.
GAG11.book Page 29 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) hp Visualize- FXE, FX5 and FX10 device-dependent information X (GLX). If necessary, the extra visuals can be disabled using the DisableGLxVisuals screen option. See the “Disabling the GLX Visuals” section for more information.
GAG11.book Page 30 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (HP Visualize graphics cards) hp Visualize- FXE, FX5 and FX10 device-dependent information visuals are simply duplicates of visuals that would normally appear in the X visual list. In case that the extra visuals cause problems with applications, a screen option can be used to disable them. To disable the GLX visuals, add the DisableGlxVisualsScreen Option to the X*screens file.
GAG11.book Page 31 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM 3 configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) This chapter documents information specific to the HP Xf86 X Server. The Xf86 X Server is based on the XFree86 version 4.2.0 X Server.
GAG11.book Page 32 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) section describes features unique to HP's implementation of the X Server, provides information on how to configure the X Server and includes a list of supported X configurations. For each supported graphics device, device-dependent configuration information is provided.
GAG11.book Page 33 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) using SAM to configure X Windows using SAM to configure X Windows Configuration of the X Server is supported through SAM via an icon titled “X Server Configuration.” This icon resides either at SAM’s top-level or under the top-level “Display” icon.
GAG11.book Page 34 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) using SAM to configure X Windows other graphics cards. Running independent X Servers on an HP Visualize graphics device and any other device simultaneously is not supported. 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.
GAG11.book Page 35 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) using SAM to configure X Windows The Modify Default Visual menu item lets you set the default visuals, depth and resolution on a graphics device. It lets you identify which of these should be the default settings. 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.
GAG11.book Page 36 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file the XF86Config file The XF86Config file is located in /etc/X11/XF86Config. It can be generated automatically or modified using SAM. A working configuration file is also delivered on the system. You must be root to create or edit this file. The XF86Config man page provides additional information regarding the configuration file.
GAG11.book Page 37 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file • • • NOTE String - a sequence of characters Boolean - a boolean value (see below) Frequency - a frequency value (see below) All Option values, not just strings, must be enclosed in quotes. Boolean options may optionally have a value specified. When no value is specified, the option's value is TRUE.
GAG11.book Page 38 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Section ìServerLayoutî Identifier ìServerLayoutNameî Screen [ScreenNumber] ìScreenIDî [Position] [Xcoor] [Ycoor] . . . InputDevice . . . ìInputDeviceIDî ìInputDeviceOptionî [Option Ö] . . . EndSection Keywords, options and values enclosed in [ ] are optional. A number specifying the preferred screen number for that screen may optionally follow each Screen.
GAG11.book Page 39 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Section ìServerLayoutî Identifier ìMainLayoutî Screen 0 ìScreen 1" Absolute Screen 1 ìScreen 2" Absolute 1024 0 Screen ìScreen 3" Absolute 2048 0 . . . EndSection When the Relative keyword is used, the coordinates of the new screen's origin relative to reference screen follow the reference screen name.
GAG11.book Page 40 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Table 3-1 40 Option Value Default Description DontZap Boolean Off This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Shift+Break sequence. That sequence is normally used to terminate the X Server. When this option is enabled, that key sequence has no special meaning and is passed to clients. Source: XF86Config man page.
GAG11.book Page 41 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Table 3-1 (Continued) CursorScaleFactor Integer 1 See the section in “Features: ” for more details regarding these options. MaxCursorSize Integer 64 See the section in “Features: Cursor Scaling” for more details regarding these options. AcelerateIndirectRendering Boolean True This option is used to specify whether or not OpenGL is to do software rendering.
GAG11.book Page 42 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file where is the transport type to use to connect to the font server (e.g., Unix for UNIX-domain sockets or tcp for a TCP/IP connection), is the hostname of the machine running the font server, and is the port number that the font server is listening on (usually 7000).
GAG11.book Page 43 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file “Module” section The Module section is used to specify which X Server modules should be loaded. The types of modules normally loaded in this section are X Server extension modules, and font rasterizer modules. Most other module types are loaded automatically when they are needed via other mechanisms. There may only be one Module section in the config file.
GAG11.book Page 44 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file “InputDevice” section An InputDevice section is considered active if there is a reference to it in the active ServerLayout section. There may be multiple InputDevice sections. There will normally be at least two: one for the core (primary) keyboard, and one for the core pointer.
GAG11.book Page 45 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Table 3-2 (Continued) CoreKeyboard NA When this is set, the input device is to be installed as the core (primary) keyboard device. There must be no more than one core keyboard. If this option is not set here, or in the ServerLayout section, then the first input device that is capable of being used as a core keyboard will be selected as the core keyboard.
GAG11.book Page 46 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file ServerLayout section. If neither of these is present, the first Screen section found in the configuration file is considered the active one. Screen sections have the following format: Section ìScreenî Identifier ìScreenIDî Device ìDeviceIDî Monitor ìMonitorIDî DefaultDepth Option ... . . SubSection ìDisplayî . . EndSubSection .
GAG11.book Page 47 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Various Option flags may be specified in the Screen section. Some are driver-specific and are described in the driver documentation. Driver-independent options are described here. Table 3-3 Entry Entry Position Accel NA Enables XAA (X Acceleration Architecture), a mechanism that makes video cards' 2D hardware acceleration available to the Xserver.
GAG11.book Page 48 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file The virtual screen allows you to have a “root window” larger than what can be displayed on the monitor. (e.g. the monitor may be 800x600 display, but have a 1280x1024 virtual size). The Virtual keyword is used to specify this size. Note that many of the new accelerated graphics drivers use non-displayed memory for caching.
GAG11.book Page 49 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Option flags may be specified in the Display subsections. These may include driver-specific options or driver-independent options. The former are described in the driver-specific documentation. Some of the latter are described above in the section about the Screen section, and they may also be included here.
GAG11.book Page 50 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file The data given here is used by the X Server to determine if video modes are within the specifications of the monitor. This information should be available in the monitor's handbook. If this entry is omitted, a default range of 28-33 kHz is used. Source: XF86Config man page. VertRefresh gives the range(s) of vertical refresh frequencies supported by the monitor.
GAG11.book Page 51 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) the XF86Config file Section ìDeviceî Identifier Driver VendorName Option Ö ìDeviceIDî ìdriverî ìVnameî . . . EndSection The Identifier entry specifies the unique name for this graphics device. It must match a DriverID in the active Screen section.
GAG11.book Page 52 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) sample XF86Config file sample XF86Config file # This is a sample XF86Config file. It can be cut from this document # and placed in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. # # The config file has a hierarchical ìSectionî structure along # with some standalone ìSections.î # # The standalone sections are the Files, Module, and DRI Sections. # There may only be one of each of these sections in the config file.
GAG11.book Page 53 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) sample XF86Config file InputDevice InputDevice # # # # # # "Mouse0" "CorePointer" "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Uncomment this to force OGL indirect contexts to be rendered in software. Indirect rendering is done with the hardware driver by default. However, some features such as rendering to a glXPixmap may not be available in all hardware drivers.
GAG11.book Page 54 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) sample XF86Config file Option "Protocol" "PS/2" EndSection # # There may be multiple Monitor sections. The purpose of this section is # is to specify the range of operation of a monitor. For a Monitor to be # in use the Identifier must match the Monitor line in an active Screen. # HorizSync and VertRefresh are required fields. See the GAG for more # options that may be set.
GAG11.book Page 55 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) extensions extensions double buffer extension (DBE) DBE is an extension to the X Server that provides a double-buffering API.
GAG11.book Page 56 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) display power management signaling (DPMS) display power management signaling (DPMS) Monitors constitute a large percentage of the power used by a workstation even when not actively in use (i.e. during screen blanking).
GAG11.book Page 57 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) display power management signaling (DPMS) More information (including sample code) on the DPMS Extension entry points can be found online, via the man pages.
GAG11.book Page 58 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) display power management signaling (DPMS) Option Value Default Description SuspendTime time 30 Suspend Time sets the inactivity timeout for the “suspend” phase of DPMS mode. Time is in minutes, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1). OffTime time 40 Off Time sets the inactivity timeout for the “off ” phase of DPMS mode.
GAG11.book Page 59 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features features cursor scaling There are times when the standard X11 cursors are difficult to see on the screen. The effect is compounded on large displays. Two options are available in the X Server that instruct the X Server to scale all X11 cursors (both user-defined and built-in cursors) by a user-defined value.
GAG11.book Page 60 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features Option ìSuppressGlxVisualsî . . . EndSection ìHideDuplicateGlxVisualsî The user can also selectively “hide” classes of visuals.
GAG11.book Page 61 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features Option ìSuppressVisualsî ìPseudoColorî EndSection technical print service (TPS) The Technical Print Service, tps(5), is a network transparent printing system that allows X applications to render to non screen devices in the same manner they render to displays. It may also be referenced as the X Print Service. Please refer to the tps(5) man page for details on configuring and using TPS.
GAG11.book Page 62 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features starting the X Server from the command line Command line options for the X Server are described in Xf86(1).
GAG11.book Page 63 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features Depth The default depth of the visual can be set in the Screen section of the XF86Config file using the DefaultDepth option. The following example sets the default depth to 24. X*screens File Example: Screen /dev/crt DefaultVisual Depth 24 XF86Config File Example: Section ìScreenî . . . DefaultDepth 24 . . . EndSection The following depth may be selected as the default depth: 24.
GAG11.book Page 64 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) features DPMSStandbyTime
GAG11.book Page 65 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) input devices input devices keyboards supported keyboard drivers The following is a list of supported keyboard drivers: keyboard supported keyboard options The following is a list of keyboard options that are supported by HP. Table 3-5 Options Value Description AutoRepeat Integer Set the keyboard auto repeat parameters. Not all platforms implement this.
GAG11.book Page 66 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) output devices output devices hp Fire™ GL-UX device-dependent information HP Fire GL-UX provides 8 overlay planes, 48 image planes, a 24-bit Z buffer, 4 8-bit per channel hardware colormaps and 1 10-bit per channel hardware colormap for use in gamma correction. This device provides 2D hardware acceleration for most operations as well as 3D acceleration for lighting, shading and texture mapping.
GAG11.book Page 67 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) output devices Table 3-8 (Continued) PHOOGLVisuals Boolean False Modify the GLX visual list so that legacy 3-D applications are more likely to choose an appropriate OpenGL visual. TransparentIndex0 Boolean False Make the overlay transparent pixel index 0 instead of 255. DefaultVisualTrueColor Boolean False Use TrueColor as the default visual instead of PseudoColor.
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GAG11.book Page 69 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) output devices Class Depth Layer TrueColor (optional) 24 Overlay TrueColor 24 Image The depth 8 PseudoColor and TrueColor visuals are enabled by default. See the section “Supported Device Options” that follows for instructions on changing the default visual and/or disabling overlay visuals.
GAG11.book Page 70 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) output devices Table 3-10 70 Screen Option Type Default Description AccelerateIndirectRender ing Boolean True Controls whether indirect OpenGL contexts utilize hardware acceleration or use the HP VMD software driver. Applications that require large or numerous GLX pixmaps may require that this option be set to false.
GAG11.book Page 71 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) output devices supported monitor configurations All FireGL cards support multiple monitors. The FireGL X1 and X3 have dual DVI-I connectors, which will drive either digital or analog monitors. The FireGL T2 has one DVI-I and one VGA connector. When using a single monitor, the monitor can be attached to either connector.
GAG11.book Page 72 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints overlay visuals and overlay transparency HP Fire GL-UX devices have one visual in the overlay planes, depth-8 PseudoColor. To allow applications to determine which visuals are in the overlay planes, overlay visuals are listed in the "SERVER_OVERLAY_VISUALS" property attached to the root window.
GAG11.book Page 73 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints { /* Since the Atom exists, request the property's contents.
GAG11.book Page 74 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints This may cause problems with some applications. Setting "CountTransInOvlyVis" causes the server to reserve the transparent pixel index. In this case, the server reports that 255 colormap entries are available for allocation in the PseudoColor visual.
GAG11.book Page 75 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints system requirements hardware compatibility table This table lists graphics cards that are support on a system and which OS is required: Graphics Device Supported Systems Required Operating System HP Fire GL-UX C3650, C3700, J6700 HP-UX 11.0 and 11.
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GAG11.book Page 77 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) hp Fire GL-UX configuration hints /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.1/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_chinese_s/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_chinese_t/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_korean/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_japanese/100dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.2/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.5/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.6/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.7/75dpi/ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/iso_8859.
GAG11.book Page 78 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) ATI FireGL X1/T2/X3 configuration hints ATI FireGL X1/T2/X3 configuration hints overlay visuals and overlay transparency FireGL devices support both depth 8 PseudoColor and depth 24 TrueColor overlay visuals. The depth 8 PseudoColor visuals with transparency are enabled by default for compatibility with previous devices.
GAG11.book Page 79 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM configuring X Windows on HP-UX (other graphics cards) ATI FireGL X1/T2/X3 configuration hints gamma correction Gamma correction can be applied to windows in the image planes explicitly with the gamma tool (/opt/graphics/common/bin/gamma) or implicitly by running a direct rendering OpenGL application. If no default gamma has been set with the gamma tool, the OpenGL libraries will apply a gamma of 1.7 when starting an OpenGL application.
GAG11.book Page 79 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM 4 X Windows configuration details This chapter discusses several details concerning the configuration of X hosts, colormaps, mouse and keyboard.
GAG11.book Page 80 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file making an x*.hosts file The /etc/X0.hosts file is an ASCII text file containing the hostnames of each remote host permitted to access your local server. • If you are running as a stand-alone system, you must have your system’s name in this file. • If you are part of a network, the other system names must be included.
GAG11.book Page 81 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file • The user must have a valid login (username and password) and home directory on the remote host. stopping the X Window system After stopping all application programs, stop the window system by holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys, and then pressing the Pause/Break key. This stops the display server, and with it the window system.
GAG11.book Page 82 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file xmodmap -e “pointer = 1 3 2 4 5" 3-button mouse modifying modifier key bindings with xmodmap To change the meaning of a particular key for a particular X11 session, or to initialize the X Server with a completely different set of key mappings, use the xmodmap client.
GAG11.book Page 83 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file specifying key remapping expressions Whether you remap a single key “on the fly” with a command-line entry or install an entire new keyboard map file, you must use valid expressions in your specification, one expression for each remapping. A valid expression is any one of the following: Table 4-1 To do this . . . Use this expression . . .
GAG11.book Page 84 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file examples Suppose you frequently press the Caps key at the most inopportune moments. You could remove the Caps lock key from the lock modifier, swap it for the f1 key, then map the f1 key to the lock modifier. Do this by creating a little swapper file that contains the following lines: !This file swaps the [Caps] key with the [F1] key.
GAG11.book Page 85 Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:11 AM X Windows configuration details making an x*.hosts file values, and the fourth column contains shifted meta key values. Each column is in two parts: hexadecimal key symbol value, and key symbol name.
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