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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: color on a 3/110
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Date: 9 Sep 89 16:52:19 GMT
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> I have X11/R3 running under SUNOS4.0.1 on a 3/110. I'm using xdm as the 
> startup and have turned off the getty in /etc/ttytab. In the kernel I have
> both the bwtwo and cgfour frame buffers so I can use either a color or b+w.
> My question is, how do I get xdm to recognize the color so that
> I come up in color as default and not b-w? (If you've got it use it.)
> X recognizes the color as display 0.1 on the computer.

The obvious answer is to modify the entry in Xservers by changing the
display name xdm uses for the server:

:0.1 local /usr/bin/X11/X

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as xdm makes the assumption that the display
number is everything following the last colon in the name.  When we wrote the
new color frame buffer code and discovered that many operations are now
faster in color than monochrome on our sun, we wanted to do the same thing,
only to discover this bug.

"Fixed in R4"

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium