Subject: was reset to 8bit under x ???
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Rick Hawkins <rhawkins@iastate.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/31/1997 12:52:52
I mentioned a couple of crashes before, and now i've partway isolated
what happnes. And it may qualify as a "bad thing" :)
Somehow, while running in 1 bit, with the xserver active and happily
doing its thing, the mac got reset to 8 bit color.
I know that this sounds strange, but it happened twice. The first time,
I didn't catch it. THere was a massive blowup, and I ended up untarring
the xbase again. It didn't occur to me until the second time that my
system never should have been in color that day.
The second time, x suddenly bombed out. startx failed, putting a
message i couldn't quite catch on the screen. I rebooted the system,
rebooted bsd, and tried again. Then it occurred to me: there had been
color icons on the desktop. I rebooted under macos, and, sure enough,
it was in 8 bit. I reset to 1 bit and all was well.
Both times that it did this the active application, and most likely
suspect, was lyx running on a 486.
rick