On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 04:21:36 -0600 (CST), Dave Huang <khym@bga.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Paul Sander wrote:
> > I'm running this on a Quadra 840av (NetBSD v1.4.1) and the internal video.
> > Upon boot-up, I have it set to 1152x870 resolution and hundreds of colors.
> 
> Hundreds of colors, as in 256? I don't remember if the Xmac68k_color
> server comes with a README file, but the OSFA server's README states
> that the color map will not be correct in 256 color mode. You'll have to
> use either thousands or millions of colors.

No, for some reason I can't quite figure out, "millions" (16,777,216
to be exact) mode doesn't work.  In order to use color, you have to
use "thousands" (32,768) mode.

At 8-bits-per-pixel mode, you can switch to grayscale mode before
booting NetBSD and it'll work correctly (though not in "color").

Ken