On Mar 6, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
>> I've tried all the combinations available under the Monitors menu in
>> the Booter, to no avail.  The color rendering is badly screwed up
>> (e.g., yellow seems to be substituted for blue, color gradients are
>> heavily posterized... most graphics look like Kirlian photography).
>> x68k/palette is unhelpful; man X is not helpful.  I'm guessing that
>> there's a lot of reverse engineering that has to be done to get this 
>> to
>> work properly, or that there's something peculiar about my system-
>> hardware or software, I don't know.
>
> 8-bit pseudo-color isn't expected to work at all. You should either
> use 16-bit color (thousands of colors), or if your machine can't do
> that, 8-bit greyscale.

Thanks.  Per previous discussions on this list, the Q700 doesn't 
support 16-bit color at all (under Mac OS or NetBSD, I gathered), 
supporting only 8-bit or 24-bit.  The Xmac68k-color X server dies when 
used under 24-bit.  So perhaps I'm stuck using 8-bit grey.