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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running Xsun in color
Summary: su & MAKEDEV
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Date: 26 Feb 90 23:54:01 GMT
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In article <9002211844.AA02401@amd-20.> dhuff@AMD-20.HAC.COM(Daryl Huff) writes:
>I have the cgfour device in my sun 3 but I can only get the monochrome
>server to appear.  How do I get the color screen to "appear"?  Is it a 
>command line option?  A screen number other than 0?

You probbly have the same problem we use to have  :-)

Suntools (apparently) opens /dev/fb and does everything with that.  X requires
the proper frame buffer device.  For example rohan's /dev has:
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      27,   1 Mar 10  1989 /dev/bwtwo1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      39,   0 Mar 10  1989 /dev/cgfour0

The easyest way to make those devices is to su to root cd to /dev and 
MAKEDEV the devices.  (harder was involve su and mknode, obscure bugs and
mknode, or the disk and a magnetic source...).
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