Subject: Re: Color X Windows.
To: Gabe Ricard <gabe@beer.stampede.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/17/1998 14:00:17
Gabe Ricard wrote:
> Hi, I have an old Macintosh Quadra 700 kicking around, I booted it up the
> other day and remembered that I still had NetBSD on it, which I stopped
> using a long time ago when I bought a PC and started using Linux. I
> upgraded it's packages from 1.2.1 to 1.3.2 and was wondering if there was
> color x support yet.

not for internal video and external is still experimental.

> I rememeber hearing about there being experimental
> support back when I was using it, but it never worked for me. This machine
> hasa  SuperMac 20" monitor and a NuBus SuperMac Thunder/24 v1.16 video
> card.

you might try one of paul goyette's slotman kernels.  you can pick one up
at:

ftp://ftp.whooppee.com/pub/slotman

it should support some color nubus boards.  ken nakata's latest color X
server (the OSFA server) supports 8-bit color on nubus boards, and 16-bit
color on internal video (but the q700 can't do 16-bit color if i remember
correctly).  you can get it here:

ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/X/


> I'm also wondering if there is support for the builtin ethernet in
> the quadra 700s. I'd like to network this machine to my PC and do an
> IPMasquerade setup.

internal ethernet should work just fine (provided you have the proper
AAUI adapter...which reminds me, i need to get one ;-)

later.

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