Subject: Re: Color X of IIsi
To: Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/28/1997 18:44:16
> I know that someone had said they didn't know about the color support for
> the internal card on a IIsi.  Is there anyone out there that knows for
> sure?  From the sounds of the Readme on
> ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/X/colorkit that is will work on any QuickDraw
> Supported card.  The internal moniter on the IIsi is an 8-bit QuickDraw
> Card from what I know of because every bit of diagnostic software I run say
> that QuickDraw is enabled and the internal monitor card runs 256 colors on
> my 13" RGB Apple Monitor just fine.  Now is my diagnostic software
> incorrect or am I reading things incorrectly.  If I am please let me know
> because I'd rather just not use X if all I can use it with is monochrome.

Onboard video on the IIsi _does_not_work_in_color_ at this time.  It's 
being worked on, though, so perhaps in the next month or so (if we're 
lucky ;-).  However, if you have a NuBus (or PDS-slot on the IIsi, I 
guess) based video card in you IIsi that supports 8-bit color, chances 
are that it will work using Taras' color video LKM module.

As for _onboard_ video showing up as a card, I don't quite know why it 
would, especially considering the fact that it is RAM-based (i.e. video 
memory is mapped to the first bank of physical RAM, IIRC).

I hope this helps some.

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX