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From: drapeau@oglala.stanford.edu (George Drapeau)
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Subject: Re: 24 bit color for X?
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In article <1990Sep12.180638.12433@rice.edu> newman@frith.egr.msu.edu (Timothy S Newman) writes:

   Is anyone aware of any imminent plans for a 24-bit version of X?  I can
   only find 8-bit X software and would like to run "true color" on my pricey
   24 bit framebuffers.

Just last week, somebody posted diffs for the MIT X reference server,
supporting both the cg8 and cg9 frame buffers.  Check out comp.sources.x
for the posting.

If anybody out there has a SS1 kernel that supports a cg8, I'd love to
hear about it.  I have a RasterOps TC board that emulates a cg8 and I'd
love to use it on my SS1 (running SunOS 4.1, that is).

George D. Drapeau			Internet: drapeau@jessica.stanford.edu
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