nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> > 
> > Yes - with Ken's new Xserver, you can run color on internal video.
> > 
> > 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,
> 
> 	Can't you use the Booter to change to the settings that you want
> (e.g.  16bit/thousands of colours instead of B&W)?
> 
> 	Or is there a bug that no-one has told me about?

It should work just fine.

> >	 and you MUST use the MacOS Control Panel to set your video
> > mode BEFORE you boot NetBSD.
> 
> 	Except for resolution switching (which the Booter still doesn't do),
> the Booter should behave pretty much the same as the Monitors Cont. Panel.

Yes, but does the Booter properly gray out those options which it cannot
perform?  If it doesn't you might want to check in the Monitors control
panel to see if the color depth is supported first...

Later.

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