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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: Multiple screens on a color SUN
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Date: 23 Apr 91 16:57:39 GMT
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[stuff on how to get 2 screens from a cg4 on a Sun]

As a further complcation sometime between SunOS 4.0.3c and 4.1 the name and
minor device number that is used for the bwtwo-ish part of the cgfour is changed.
The new name is (I think) bwtwo1 (rather then bwtwo0, most likely so people could
use both a bw2 and cg4 on the same Sun, my guess is that was needed so you could
use a cg4 Sbus card and the build-in bw2 on the motherboard of the IPC's at the
same time, but I don't know).   Anyway X will not give you the mono screen unless
you either mv /dev/bwtwo1 /dev/bwtwo0, or patch the X sever (I was in a hurry
and just did the mv; I found a patch somewhere and will apply it next upgrade).

Does anyone know how to set the colors of the "mono" screen on the cg4 under X's
nose?
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