Subject: Re: Color X
To: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
From: None <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/24/1998 08:57:13
>
> 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?
> 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.
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