Hi,

Just to clarify things a bit for those people who have come to NetBSD on
the Mac recently. Currently, you can run X in one of two modes: monochrome
or 256 color. You do not really need to do anything that special to get 
monochrome X to work. IMHO, while color X is better than monochrome X, 
monochrome X is better than no X at all. I used to run it with fvwm and it
didn't look that bad at all.

To get color running, you need to do several things. 1) Color X only runs on
certain Nubus video cards. See the MacBSD FAQ for a hopefully up to date 
list of supported cards. 2) You need a kernel that will deal with your 
Nubus card. I believe the SLOTMAN kernel is the kernel of choice in this
area. 3) You need to get the video LKM with Colin's patches. 4) You need to
get the X distribution from the !! NetBSD 1.2 distribution !! The color X
server will not work with the 1.3 X distribution. 5) You need to get the color
X server. Again, this server only supports 256 colors. A link to it can be 
found in the MacBSD FAQ.

Note that you can run the 1.2 X distribution with 1.3. I am living proof as my
IIcx is running 1.3-ALPHA, 1.2 X distribution, and Ken's colorkit X server.

I hope this clears things up.

Mark

On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Ken Nakata wrote:

> A few people have worked (and a couple of them are still working) on
> color support in the kernel.  I've done a little work on the color X
> server.  My color server doesn't support 16 grayscale and it's been
> reported that it doesn't work with the current X binaries, though.
> 
> Maybe one of those days...
> 
> Ken

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