Subject: Re: Making X work on MFB
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Andy Doran <ad@fionn.sports.gov.uk>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/04/1999 23:10:38
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Be careful. the Turbochannel MFB has nothing at all to do with
> the mono version of the 2100/3100 cfb, which is also called
> an mfb.

Yup.

> If it helps any, the DEC product servers and X11R6 (Xws-based Xdec
> server) said the PMAG-AA was staticgray, 8 bits deep....

Yes, but Xws calls ?fbSetupScreen() with two extra arguments, bpp and
depth. That doesn't appear anywhere in the sources (ie, only the
'regular' functions do). It handles the tc_mfb correctly via these two
arguments.
 
Andy.