Subject: Re: Color X
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/23/1998 09:07:19
Paul Goyette wrote:
> Yes - with Ken's new Xserver, you can run color on internal video.

Not quite.  Only if you can get 16-bit color.  Ken's README pretty much
says that you are limited to StaticGray color (i.e. grayscale) if you
don't use one of the ROM video solutions and you have only 4 or 8 bit
color.
 
> If you are using internal video, or if you are using non-ROM enabled
> nubus video, you MUST set up the booter to NOT change your video
> settings, and you MUST use the MacOS Control Panel to set your video
> mode BEFORE you boot NetBSD.

True.

> If you are using nubus-card video AND you are using either the SLOTMAN
> kernel or the color LKM, the server will set the video mode to the
> "best" available.

True.

> Go to the URL Ken gave in his message and download the Xserver AND the
> README file.  Read the README, then read it again before you start.

Yes, please do!

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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