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.

supported visuals

HP Fire GL-UX supports the following visuals:

Table 3-7

Class

Depth

Layer

 

 

 

PseudoColor

8

Overlay

 

 

 

TrueColor

24

Image

 

 

 

Both the PseudoColor and TrueColor visuals are enabled by default. See the section “Supported Device Options” below for instructions on changing the default visual and/or disabling overlay visuals.

supported device options

Table 3-8

Options

Value

Default

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

enableDVI

Boolean

False

Enable DVI connector.

 

 

 

 

Qbs

Boolean

False

Enable quad-buffered stereo mode.

 

 

 

 

CountTransInOvlyVis

Boolean

True

When set to false, causes the X Server to

 

 

 

reserve the transparent pixel index in all

 

 

 

PseudoColor overlay colormaps, thus

 

 

 

reporting only 255 available entries.

 

 

 

 

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