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From: gt1737b@prism.gatech.EDU (Wayne Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xserver for sun 4/370
Keywords: 24bit color servers
Message-ID: <14171@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 90 01:12:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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  We have a Sun 4/370 here in our animation lab and are trying to run
 X11r4 on it. The problem is we have a cg9 frame buffer, with a gp2 
 graphics processor and a parallax ntsc video frame buffer. I have
 determined that if I set the variable XDEVICE to /dev/cgnine0, then
 I am able to get X11r4 to display on the correct device, but it is 
 only in monochrome. 

   What we would like to have is the full 24-bits in X-windows, I was
 wondering if the OpenLook software that Sun supplies offers 24 bit
 support for this framebuffer? I have heard from friends that the standard
 X11r4 release doesn't offer 24-bits, but is there anyway to at least
 get 8bits on the cg9 device?

   Please post any help through e-mail.
-- 
Wayne Wooten       | Georgia Institute of Technology
(404) 934-2822     | ARPA: gt1737b@prism.gatech.edu
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