From: Timothy MacDonald <tmacdonald@lgc.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:14:53 +0000

GGI 3d cube, glide target, and xggi

Hello GGI people,

I am a sys-admin working for a large commercial software company ( we
develop on unix platforms ). We are having an internal developer's
conference and I have taken the opportunity to fight the good fight,
push Linux!  I am giving a presentation on Linux and as part of that
presentation I would like to demo some GGI stuff. This is where you guys
come in. If you would be kind enough to answer some I questions I would
really appreciate it. First off lemme give you a rundown of my system:

Dual Pentium Pro 200
128 Megabytes EDO ECC ram
Matrox Millenium I   ( the original millenium )
Voodoo2 Reference Board

Redhat 5.2
Linux Kernel 2.2.5
    I have compiled in fbcon support and manually set support for all
bitdepths
    I HAVE NOT installed kgicon
Beta2 release of GII and GGI
XGGI 1.6

I have succesfully run all ggi demos on both the fbdev and x targets.

Ok so here are my questions:

1. whenever I run XGGI on the console it comes up but in VERY low
resolution, and with very few colors ( I am guessing 16 color max ). I
have tried feeding it a "modes" command line option as follows:

 xggi -modes 1024x768[C16/16]

This changes things definatly, but for the worse. The display becomes
garbled and unreadable. It looks as though it is trying write too much
data into a very small framebuffer ( This isn't the case I don't think,
but that is what it LOOKS like ).  I tried defining a mode with the help
of the ggiParseMode man page but it says that it is out of date and
invalid. Could I get a hint on what to do here? BTW xggi works great
when I run it on an X target.

2. Is it possible for me to run the amazing 6 sided cube desktop thing
on a glide target? I.E. can I run cube3d on a glide target and start up
a 4 headed x server and two nixterms on the cube?

3. In general what suggestions do you guys have for demoing ggi?

Thanks alot,

    Timothy MacDonald
    Unix System Administrator
    Landmark Graphics
    Houston, TX
    281-560-1418
    tmacdonald@lgc.com