On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:38:54PM -0500, Eric Radman wrote:
> Guys,
>
> 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
>
> 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?
>
> dmesg output:
>
> cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0x0 level 9: SUNW,501-2325, 1152 x 900,
> rev 11 (console)cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb

I've not used this particular setup, but I have had problems with 
'links -g' in anything lower than a 16 bit depth.  It acts like it
wants its own color map, but fails.  I've had better luck with dillo, 
which is faster anyways.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org