Ken Nakata wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:01:19 -0500 (EST),
> mrz5149@cs.rit.edu (Michael R Zucca) wrote:
> > 
> > the person boots in 8 bit mode. The server checks what mode it's
> > in and says "Oh, looks like we're already in 8 bit mode" and
> > then fires itself up in color mode.
> 
> Sorry, but it doesn't work that way (at least mine doesn't.  I don't
> know about Colin's). 

I made almost _no_ changes to your code (I believe I removed the SE/30
mmap bugfix since I seem to remember Scott saying the root cause had been
fixed in the kernel).  So, it should work pretty much the same way.

> Any "regular" kernel doesn't support color grf
> ioctl()'s, so returns error when server tries the mode switching grf
> ioctl().  This error leads it to assume the bit depth is 1-bit, not
> 8-bit.  The server doesn't pay any more effort in figuring out
> the real bit depth the hardware is set.

I don't think there is even method to determine the current color depth,
but I could be wrong.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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