At 08:53 -0700 21/9/00, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
>
>>  Well, it's working now. 1.5a won't do any more than 256 colours on my
>>  Quadra for some reason. And, it is important to reboot the mac after
>>  changing the number of colours and before booting bsd... very
>>  confusing!!!
>>
>>  for example, if the machine boots up with millions of colours, I
>>  change the number of colours to 256, then bsd will panic. I have to
>>  reboot the mac after changing the colours.
>
>The problem then is probably with how we are (mis)handling setting up the
>virtual memroy support & mappings for the video memory.
>
>If you boot with millions of colors, MacOS probably reserves more video
>memory than it does when you boot with just 256 colors. And that different
>amount of video memory is what's tripping the system up.

right, there you go :-)

Cheers

Jesse
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