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From: cca04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (P.J. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: cgsix problem
Message-ID: <864@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Feb 91 13:08:48 GMT
References: <556@opus.NMSU.Edu>
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From article <556@opus.NMSU.Edu>, by sberger@nmsu.edu ( Steve Berger ):
> We have a SUN 4  here with a cgsix video board.
> After suntools is used, and exited, the screen enters a weird
> mode.
> It's sort of reverse video, it's white on black, but the space
> bar whites things out as it goes along, creating white bars
> and such.

We've got a Sun 3/80 with a cgsix in it (SunOS 4.0.3) and after using
suntools it invariably comes out as white on white...

A reset command typed at the console (invisibly) will cure this, whereas
clear_colormap doesn't.

And no, I don't know why either....
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