Michael R. Zucca wrote:
> >That's okay. Just having my box run any colors is a humongous improvemnet
> >over the b&w mode. I was having withdrawls like when I was stuck with a
> >black and white tv...sorry folks, I missed the monochrome revolution when I
> >bought my one and only computer in 1993: this Q700, which went from 256k to
> >"millions" when I up-ed the ram to 20 megs.
> 
> I've been working on internal video drivers for some time and I'm getting
> close to having full video support (including stuff like resolution swtiching
> and other stuff) but I was held up by grad school work and moving to a new
> location. Now that I've moved away from school, which had a whole bunch of
> Centrises for me to test on, I have to rub together enough pennies to buy
> some old Quadras. :)

ain't it great ;-)
 
> In the mean time I've been documenting the hardware notes I've put together
> into something a little more human readable than hundreds of little Post-It
> notes that say things like "vbporch=108". What I've realized is that while
> I still need to fiddle around with alot of Quadra hardware and figure out
> the AV's, I currently have enough information about loading DACs in 8 bit mode
> to allow folks to boot in 8 bit mode and do 256 color internal video on most
> of the machines. It also allows me to add reasonable functionality without
> having to do testing that could potentially fry people's monitors.

cool!

> So I've been thinking of hacking together something quick, rather than
> complete,
> for our grf driver that will let folks with internal video do 8 bit X in color.
> I can put out a more complete set of drivers later when I have some Quadras
> to play with.
> 
> So does everybody want color now or do they want to wait? :)

do you even have to ask?!?  ;-)

> BTW, we should really fix the X server to do 24 bit color too :)

ken was working on this last i heard....

later.

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