Hi,

At 2:48 PM -0500 04.3.6, David Hazelton wrote:
>I have a Performa 550 with 20MB Ram, FPU, 500MB partition for Netbsd and
>Network card.  I installed 1.6.1 a few weeks ago, I was hoping for Color
>and KDE, since my other Linux boxes (Intel) are setup that way.
>
>One is the 68030 with 20mb capable of this?  Two, what are the
>limitations I will encounter...(Color depth...etc)?

Performa 550 has 512 KB VRAM on the logicboard, and it goes 640 x 480
8 bpp (256 colors). It has one VRAM socket, add 256 KB VRAM = total
768 KB goes 640 x 480 16 bpp thousands of colors.
    (NetBSD/mac68k doesn't support 24 bpp full color, right?)

As Tim McNamara wrote on the other thread, 256 colors gets "horrible
color rendering" in full color graphics.

At 10:52 AM -0600 04.3.6, Tim McNamara wrote:
>Truly the stuff of too much pizza before bedtime.

 :)

Adding 256 KB VRAM is a good idea.

What do you like to do on KDE?  I'm not familiar with it, they say that
KDE is too heavy for '030 Macs, is that true?

Thanks,
Kazu Inanaga