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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
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References: <4kk201$4gg@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <russ-1304961000570001@seismo.demon.co.uk> <3174140F.75BE@zuc.org> <mrz5149-1604960958180001@129.21.30.1>
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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
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Ken Nakata  . . . . Cook College, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
http://remus.rutgers.edu/~kenn/, ftp://remus.rutgers.edu/pub/NetBSD/index.html
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