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Hello,

> My SPARCstation 20's card works fine with X, but doesn't agree with
> links -g. I normally run X using -cc in grayscale:
>
> xinit -- -ar1 200 -ar2 50 -cc 0

Do you use Xsun or XFree86?

> But in color or grayscale links trashes the current pallet--the
> background flips to black, and most of the screen is unreadable. When I
> exit links it's all good again.
>
> Is this a feature in the cgsix framebuffer that links is trying to
> leverage?

extremely unlikely. Did you try the StaticGray visual class? That 
should not allow any access to the colour map at all and behave more or 
less like a TrueColor display.

have fun
Michael
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