Subject: Re: Color X issues/1.6.2 question
To: Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/06/2004 15:39:07
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Tim McNamara wrote:

> I've tried all the combinations available under the Monitors menu in
> the Booter, to no avail.  The color rendering is badly screwed up
> (e.g., yellow seems to be substituted for blue, color gradients are
> heavily posterized... most graphics look like Kirlian photography).
> x68k/palette is unhelpful; man X is not helpful.  I'm guessing that
> there's a lot of reverse engineering that has to be done to get this to
> work properly, or that there's something peculiar about my system-
> hardware or software, I don't know.

8-bit pseudo-color isn't expected to work at all. You should either
use 16-bit color (thousands of colors), or if your machine can't do
that, 8-bit greyscale.

Frederick