On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> I followed Charles Carvalho's post/PR on setting Xsun24 to TrueColor
> 	http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=15963
> mknod /dev/cgfourteen0 c 99 0;chmod 666 /dev/cgfourteen0
> Comment out the "#undef CG14_CG8" in sys/arch/sparc/dev/cgfourteen.c
> Compile a 1.6_BETA kernel with "options CG14_CG8"
> Then "startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun24.truecolor"
>
> I'm currently running x11perf under Xsun24.truecolor and Xsun if anyone's
> interested in the results.
>
> Would anyone object to the following changes:
> /dev/MAKEDEV automatically creating cgfourteen0 and cgfourteen1
> addition of a commented out "options CG14_CG8" in GENERIC
> removal of the "#undef CG14_CG8" in sys/arch/sparc/dev/cgfourteen.c
>   since one still needs to uncomment "options CG14_CG8" from the kernel config
> changing Xsun24 as Charles suggests (remove DirectColor or add conditionals for
>   cgfourteen and tcx allowing more users to run in 24 bpp than only cgeight)
>
> Thus, for someone to experiment with it, they'd only need to compile a
> kernel with "options CG14_CG8".  Stuff that's working, but not well tested
> should be easy to test.

	Sounds like a plan - probably worth adding a section to options(4)
	describing what to do.

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