Re: "Shallow" X

[Kenneth Lind <kenneth.lind%mbox2.swipnet.se@localhost>]

On 17-Apr-98, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

>> ioctl VIOCGSIZE: Can't obtain memory      (or something like that.
>...

>  This error could be due to trying to use a display mode that doesn't
>support more than 4 bit planes.  Only the dbl-ntsc, dbl-PAL, and Super72
>modes will support 8 bit planes, and they normally need to be explicitly
>enabled with the "-A" option to loadbsd or the bootblock loader.

To bad. My monitor doesn't like those modes. I've only got an old
C= 1084.. Nothing much to do about it then.

Thanks for the help anyway.

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