[SunHELP] SX frame buffer & 24-bit color

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Gereon Stein wrote:

> It's basically that for some reason the openwindows server won't run
> against two framebuffers with different color depths. I wouldn't want
> that anyway ;-)

The OpenWindows server has no problem running against many framebuffers
with many different color depths. 

My old SS2 had at one point a bwtwo (1bpp), a cgsix (8bpp) and a GT
(24bpp) running 3-headed with the stock Solaris 2.4 OpenWindows X server. 
I never had a single issue with color depths. 

Provided you're not trying to merge multiple physical displays into a
single logical display (such as with Xvan or Xinerama) there is no
requirement that the displays share any common attributes.

I found it incredibly useful at the time.  The GT was pretty but miserably
slow for interactive work.  The bwtwo was clean and sharp on a crisp ECL
mono monitor and perfect for code.  The cgsix was a good compromise for
things in the middle. 

-James