On Sat, 2006-08-07 at 18:00 -0500, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> Andy Ball wrote:
> > I had read that the hardware supported colour, but wasn't
> > sure if NetBSD's X server did (the mac68k part of the NetBSD
> > Web site seem sort of stale, talking about 1.5.2 in the
> > future tense).  Thanks for the help.  Now to find a USB->ADB
> > mouse adapter! :-)
> 
> Yes, the online docs are very old.  The standard X server is 1-bit, but 
> there is a contributed color X server.  It cannot be shipped as the 
> default because the creators are no longer around to give consent to the 
> licensing.  But it works just fine in 16-bit!
> 
> Tim
> 

Except on a Quadra 700, which does not support 16 bit color.   You will
get 8 bit color on your Quadra 700.  For some bizarre reason, I could
never manage to get 24-bit color to work with NetBSD.

Still, 8-bit color is better than black and white.  :-P