dhuff@AMD-20.HAC.COM (Daryl Huff) (02/22/90)
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.
stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) (02/27/90)
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...). -- stripes@wam.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Mutitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "Don't try to change C into some nice, safe, portable programming language with all sharp edges removed, pick another language." - John Limpert