Hello,

> > And why is it that X doesn't already do grayscale?  Lack of
> > documentation?
> 
> I don't know.  Perhaps the hardware doesn't support it.  Perhaps it's
> lack of docs.  Perhaps it _does_ already do it and you just don't know
> how to turn it on.  Perhaps something else....  I've never even tried
> to make X work on mac68k, so I'm rather out of my depth here.

Last thing I heard was lack of documentation on NuBus and onboard framebuffers, so NetBSD uses whatever the booter leaves behind when loading the kernel and apparently the Xserver can't change the palette. So just setting a greyscale mode in MacOS ( or the booter ) MAY work. But the console driver is picky about colour depth so your mileage may vary, greatly. Can't try it myself since I had to leave my Q700 behind in Germany - and the huge PDS graphics board inside will probably never be supported anyway ( a Miro Rainbow GX - seems to have a LOT of RAM, at least one DSP, something that looks like an s-video connector and in 24bit it's still faster than the onboard video in 8 bit, but searching for documentation or companion software was totally futile )

have fun
Michael