Subject: Re: Quadra 700 Colour?
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From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/08/2006 22:55:23
nate@portents.com wrote:
> A couple of things.  The Quadra 700 can't do 16-bit, only 8-bit or 24-bit,
> and AFAIK there isn't support for 24-bit color X in NetBSD (at least the

Buh?  You mean the (MacOS) control panel lists 16, 256, and millions of 
colors...but not thousands?  That seems very bizarre.  If you've got 
enough VRAM for 24 bit, why disable setting to 16?

> last time I tried).  You can do 8-bit greyscale, but not 8-bit color
> because I don't think they ever got color lookup tables working right.

Yeah, the mac68k color X server is borked in 8 bit color.  I never tried 
8 bit gray.


Tim

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