On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:01:19 -0500 (EST),
mrz5149@cs.rit.edu (Michael R Zucca) wrote:
> 
> the person boots in 8 bit mode. The server checks what mode it's
> in and says "Oh, looks like we're already in 8 bit mode" and
> then fires itself up in color mode.

Sorry, but it doesn't work that way (at least mine doesn't.  I don't
know about Colin's).  Any "regular" kernel doesn't support color grf
ioctl()'s, so returns error when server tries the mode switching grf
ioctl().  This error leads it to assume the bit depth is 1-bit, not
8-bit.  The server doesn't pay any more effort in figuring out
the real bit depth the hardware is set.

> I've dones this before myself when I boot up into a regular
> kernel under 8 bit rather than one of my experimental ones.

So, this souldn't have happened... hmm.

Ken