Sun Microsystems TurboGX, Руководство по установке

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2-2 TurboGX/Turbo GXplus Installation Guide—November 1993
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3. ESD (electrostatic discharge) kit (provided)
Refer to 600MP System Board and Expansion Memory Installation and Service
Manual for a list of tools and equipment that are needed to install a
TurboGX/TurboGXplus card into a particular SPARCsystem.
Refer to SPARCcenter 1000 and 2000 System Board and Expansion Memory
Installation and Service Manual for a list of tools and equipment that are needed
to install a TurboGX/TurboGXplus card into a particular SPARCcenter.
2.2 Software Requirements
The TurboGX requires SunOS 4.0.3, the TurboGXplus requires SunOS 4.1.1 or
higher or Solaris 1.x or higher to run a single TurboGX/TurboGXplus
configuration. To run multiple TurboGX/TurboGXplus configurations, you
need SunOS 4.1.1 or higher, or Solaris 2.0. If you need to run Sundiag in a
multiple TurboGX/TurboGXplus configuration, you need 4.1.1
−
GFX Rev 2 or
higher or Solaris 2.0. If you do not have the appropriate operating system
revision, contact your local Sun Sales Representative to obtain the necessary
software upgrade.
Note –
You need 4.1.1
−
GFX Rev 2 only if you need to run Sundiag in a
multiple TurboGX/TurboGXplus configuration mode. It is not required to
bring up your TurboGX/TurboGXplus or run any applications.
2.3 Running Direct Xlib
Direct Xlib is Sun Microsystems new software product that transparently
enhances graphics rendering performed for graphics-intensive Xlib
applications. Source code changes are not necessary because Direct Xlib
present the standard Xlib interface as presented in OpenWindows

.
Dynamically linked applications can use Direct Xlib without recompiling or
relinking. Statically linked applications will only have to be relinked with the
static Direct Xlib library prior to use.
Direct Xlib provides enhanced performance for Xlib applications when run
locally using the OpenWindows

server. It accelerates those operations which
cause changes to pixels on the screen by using Direct Graphics Access

(DGA)
technology to bypass the server and perform the operations directly on the
graphics hardware device. The performance improvement comes from the