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Article #37396Re: Running Xsun in color
From: Joshua Osborne
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 23:54
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 23:54
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In article <9002211844.AA02401@amd-20.> dhuff@AMD-20.HAC.COM(Daryl Huff) writes:
>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?
You probbly have the same problem we use to have :-)
Suntools (apparently) opens /dev/fb and does everything with that. X requires
the proper frame buffer device. For example rohan's /dev has:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 27, 1 Mar 10 1989 /dev/bwtwo1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 39, 0 Mar 10 1989 /dev/cgfour0
The easyest way to make those devices is to su to root cd to /dev and
MAKEDEV the devices. (harder was involve su and mknode, obscure bugs and
mknode, or the disk and a magnetic source...).
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Running Xsun in color Summary: su & MAKEDEV Message-ID: <1990Feb26.235401.17631@eng.umd.edu> Date: 26 Feb 90 23:54:01 GMT References: <9002211844.AA02401@amd-20.> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 21