Thanks, I'll give it a try.  I hadn't thought of millions.


>> I wanted to let everybody know that I tried to get X color working today
>> with an old rasterops 24STV card that I had laying around.  I'm working on
>> a IIci and I cannot even get through the boot process without having the
>> video card's ROM image pop-up and 3 tiny screens appear.
>
>Actually, sounds like your card's PrimaryInit code is switching modes to
>24 bit mode. Unfortunately, I don't think Paul's code will adjust for willy
>nilly mode changes like this.
>
>Try booting NetBSD in Millions of colors mode. That way, your card will simply
>stay in 24 bit mode when SLOTMAN runs the PrimaryInit code and the console
>will be visible as *one* screen :)
>
>It will be slow but once you get X going, the X server will switch the card
>into 8 bit mode and things will pick up speed again.
>
>A solution to this problem might be to have the grf driver check the bit depth
>at startup and either switch it back to the one stored or reinit the console
>to the new depth.
>
>Good luck!


-->David out.
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