Subject: Re: ColorX
To: Rahman Amanullah <p96raa@princeps.matematik.su.se>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/22/1998 09:14:16
What kind of video card are you using?

(If the answer is "None, I'm using internal video" then that's the
problem!  SLOTMAN only works with nubus video cards.)

On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Rahman Amanullah wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I tried to install colorX on my IIsi. I followed 'Mark's MacBSD Color X
> How-To' and downloaded the SLOTMAN kernel. However, when I type startx I
> get the following error message
> 
> Couldn't set video mode to 0x80 or 0x83
> Assuming 1 bit-per-pixel mode...
> Screen 0 at 0x41ff000, 640 by 480, rowB 80, fbbase 0xbf5000.
> 
> and then X starts in bw. Am I doing something wrong or won't colorX run on
> my IIsi? Will it run on my Performa 600?
> 
> R 
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