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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!winternet.com!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!er7.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail From: kenn@eden.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD/mak68k: problems with serial overruns, X console Date: 17 Apr 1996 11:35:01 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4l3335$s3e@er7.rutgers.edu> References: <4kk201$4gg@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <russ-1304961000570001@seismo.demon.co.uk> <3174140F.75BE@zuc.org> <mrz5149-1604960958180001@129.21.30.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: er7.rutgers.edu Currently, Xmacbsd does NOT run in color. See: http://puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us/macbsd/macbsd-docs/index.html mrz5149@rit.cs.rit.edu (M. R. Zucca) writes: ] Our best bet would be to try and get the base address of that damned CLUT ] somehow! No, the best way is to download the video driver off the ROM and access the hardware through it. It's actually been done recently. There's an on-going effort to write a color X server which takes advantage of the new grf driver, too. It won't be much longer until there's color X support. Be patient, please. ] Ask Allen Briggs. Doing this might be on his to-do list. No, I'm almost sure it's not on his list. At least not near the top of it. Besides, swamping his (or anyone else's) mailbox doesn't get things done any faster. ken -- Ken Nakata . . . . Cook College, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey http://remus.rutgers.edu/~kenn/, ftp://remus.rutgers.edu/pub/NetBSD/index.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." -- John McCarthy