Subject: Re: color X on Quadra 700
To: Riccardo Mottola <zuse@libero.it>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/28/2003 05:56:14
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> on 11/27/03 10:31 PM, kevdig@rcn.com at kevdig@rcn.com wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me what is necessary to get color X working on
> > my Quadra 700? If it involves software archeology using
> > MacsBug, can someone post a brief description of the
> > procedure?
>
> AFAIK, here was an X color server that "worked out of the box" but it was
> for some older NetBSD version so I had troubles running it the last time I
> tried. Right now hoewer my only running BSD mac is headless and the othe mac
> isn't supported (IIfx and Quadra950) :-(
> Beware that you had to set the color depth in MacOS before booting into
> NetBSD and that the server was unaccelerated (=dog slow on high resolution
> with 8bit color or more)

I can verify, it builds and runs fine on NetBSD 1.6ZF. See

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/contrib/

I don't think much has changed in NetBSD's XFree86 3 "xsrc", but let
me know if the patches don't apply cleanly, and I'll upload new ones.

Frederick