Subject: Re: color X
To: SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com>
From: Adrian Rollett <acrollet+@andrew.cmu.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/21/1997 08:41:37
On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, SamMaEl wrote:

> 
> 	In case anyone is curious, I've basically gotten color X working
> on my IIci! Well, the color X server boots fine under 1.3_ALPHA with a
> GENERIC-47 or 48 kernel. I had to ungzip all of the fonts and use compress
> on them all. I think it took maybe 10 or 15 minutes... I just opened 3
> telnets into the IIci and did a gunzip *.gz in each directory with fonts..
> then a compress *.pcf or whatever the suffix for the fonts is... and it
> did it all by itself while I played Warcraft ;-) But, then you have to
> update the fonts.dir file in each directory for the new .Z extension in
> place of .gz. The ONE thing that didn't work was the color lkm. There was
> an undefined symbul _nubus_slot or something... I can't remember off the
> top of my head. But, the X server cannot set itself to 8-bit. Does anyone
> have a working video_lkm_combined.o? Or whatever it's called? ;-) Thanks! 
> 

I compiled one under Generic #38 - You're welcome to try it

ftp://rosadelsaron.res.cmu.edu/color/

-Adrian

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