Subject: Re: links-gui on cgsix
To: Michael <macallan1888@gmail.com>
From: Eric Radman <theman@eradman.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/15/2006 08:41:31
On 14:17 Wed 14 Jun     , Michael wrote:
> 
> Do you use Xsun or XFree86?

Xsun

> >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.

Based on this post I thought -cc was used to select a default visual
class:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2002/06/10/0005.html

Is there a way to force it? There's no 'defclass' parameter like the
Xsun in SunOS.

Eric