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Running Xsun in color

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From: Daryl Huff
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 18:44
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In message <9002201451.AA02246@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Bob Scheiffler writes:

>The cgtwo should be a color display, although you can force it to run in
>monochrome mode using the -mono switch to the server.  The cgfour runs
>in a "dual screen" mode; it has both a mono and a color screen, with only
>one "appearing" at a given time.  The R3 MIT server made the mono screen
>the default, the R4 MIT server makes the color screen the default (although
>you can give it the -mono switch to revert to the R3 behavior).

I have the cgfour device in my sun 3 but I can only get the monochrome
server to appear.  How do I get the color screen to "appear"?  Is it a 
command line option?  A screen number other than 0?


                                       Daryl Huff
                                       Hughes Aircraft Co.
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Subject: Running Xsun in color
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