On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:

> Up until now I've been a strictly PC only guy.  I'm trying to get XFree86
> working on my SparcStation4 right now.  It runs fine, I get WindowMaker
> all nice and good, but the display is 8bit only.  I've changed the symlink
> of /usr/X11R6/bin/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun24 and it still runs in
> 8 bit color.  Anyone know how to make it run in 24 bit, or even if a
> SparcStation 4 can?  I noticed that there's no xf86config program with the
> sparc packages.  There's also no /etc/XF86Config file.  Any clues?

What kind of graphics card do you have?  cgtwo through cgsix only support
8 bit color AFAICR.  You'll need a "better" card to do 24-bit.  I've never
personally done 24 bit, so I'm not even sure that it works that well.

You could dmesg to see what kind of card the kernel detected at boot.

-Jon
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