Subject: Re: 16-grey X11 (Was Re: Video mode change)
To: Tim Bessie <tbessie@eci.net>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1997 15:48:30
At 7:34 AM -0800 12/17/97, Tim Bessie wrote:
>running) can't deal with 16-greys (it's either 256 colors or
>B&W).  Is that a limitation of X11 itself, or of the Mac
>drivers it's using?  Does it take control of the video hardware

Not exactly either, but probably more the former.  The machine independent
code in the reference implementation of X (well R4/R5 era anyway) only
supports those two and not the 16-grey option.

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