Subject: Re: Color X on Quadra 650
To: None <bwildasi@hotmail.com, bwildasi@csulb.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/24/1998 11:41:27
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 12:28:51 +0000, brian wildasinn wrote:
> Did you get internal color working? I've got a Q700 withh 20 megs of
> ram, but when the OSFA server starts up-- and after a striped red 2 inch
> square at the top right corner of the monitor disappears---, i get three
> miniature screens on the top of the terminal, which I thought maybe
> changing to another emulator than vt220 would fix it, but none of them
> make any difference .Could you point me to a link with a more current
> color internal x server that does thousands (millions in the macOS,
> uncorrected gamma). Mine appears to only work correctly in 256 mode.

The problem is your Quadra 700 doesn't do thousands of colors.
And right now, 24-bit (millions) color is broken in the OSFA server,
so 256 gray scale is the best you can do at the moment.

Sorry for the bad news,

Ken