Subject: Re: a few newbie mac hardware questions
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/10/2006 15:17:49
Hauke Fath wrote:
> The NetBSD/mac68k X server is monochrome. There is an inofficial X server
> that can handle colour (8 bit greyscale recommended; I've never tried

Works great in 16-bit color - and as a nice side effect it gives reverse 
video on the console!  At 8-bit and lower, the colors are wonky, so 
grayscale is recommended.

> {hi,true} colour. Why this code, which exists since 1998 at least, was
> never folded into the tree, I don't know.

License issues...the authors cannot be located to get permission for BSD 
licensing.


Tim

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