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Operating Systems AIX AIX supported graphics cards Post 302161167 by dukessd on Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 08:41:51 PM
Old 01-23-2008
You will not be able to use anything but the supported adapters because the drivers will not be available for any other cards.

They must also be genuine IBM cards or the driver will not configure it because it will do a vpd lookup on the card and if the vpd is not from IBM the driver will not configure it.

For instance some of the gxt cards are made by matrox and then ibm re-write the vpd. if you stick the original (pc) matrox card in, same card hardware but without the modified ibm vpd, the driver will fail to load.

If you don't have a graphics card you can still install X11 and export the display to another system with a graphics card, then display the CDE on your graphics console from the other machine.
 

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get_gfx_mode_type(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual					get_gfx_mode_type(3alleg4)

NAME
get_gfx_mode_type - Retrieves type information for a specific graphics card. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> int get_gfx_mode_type(int graphics_card); DESCRIPTION
This function lets you determine the types of operating modes that a specific graphics card driver operates in. It will tell you whether it is a windowed, fullscreen, definitely windowed or fullscreen, and/or a magic driver. The value returned is a bitfield consisting of these fields: GFX_TYPE_UNKNOWN GFX_TYPE_WINDOWED GFX_TYPE_FULLSCREEN GFX_TYPE_DEFINITE GFX_TYPE_MAGIC The return value will only be equivalent to GFX_TYPE_UNKNOWN when it is a driver unrecognized on that platform, or it is a bogus value. Test for the other types by using a bitwise AND. If the driver is windowed or fullscreen, it will also have the definite flag set. For example, int gfx_type = get_gfx_mode_type(GFX_AUTODETECT_WINDOWED); gfx_type would have the GFX_TYPE_WINDOWED, GFX_TYPE_DEFINITE, and GFX_TYPE_MAGIC flags set. Allegro needs to be initialized first. Example: /* Accept the use of only windowed drivers in our selection dialog */ int accept_windowed(int card , int w , int h , int color_depth) { if (get_gfx_mode_type(card) & GFX_TYPE_WINDOWED) return 0; return 1; } /* In main: */ gfx_mode_select_filter(&card, &w, &h, &color_depth, accept_windowed); RETURN VALUE
Returns a bitfield describing the graphics mode type. SEE ALSO
gfx_mode_select_filter(3alleg4), get_gfx_mode(3alleg4), set_gfx_mode(3alleg4), is_windowed_mode(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 get_gfx_mode_type(3alleg4)
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