Subject: Re: color X?
To: None <ender@is.rice.edu>
From: Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/11/1996 21:09:58
> > I have a Mac IIvx, 20MB RAM, with 16-bit internal video. since the booter
> > crashes with 16-bit video, i'd be using 8-bit. I have a 4-bit Apple Nubus
> > video card in my Mac II...would X work on 4-bit?
> > thanks!
>
> The internal video will probably have to wait until the intvidtest stuff 
> if finished.  However, you can try the 4-bit card with the colorkit 
> xserver.  Your card is grayscale, so I don't see why it wouldn't work, 
> but then again Taras is probably the person you want to ask about this.

If you ask me, I will tell: give it a try! I do not see how you can
break anything trying. Even if the card will work with one of the
colotkit kernels, I am not sure what mode color Xserver requires. It
may not work in 4-bit grayscale mode.

	Taras Ivanenko.