Re: X11 problems

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
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> SOmeone else has X working?

yes, X does work for some video cards.  Namely, I've run it on the
on-board video on Quadra 610, 650, 840av and Centris 660av systems.

> then I ask if color is supported? any chance at that ? Better
> resolution?

no color.
No grey scale.
1 bit per pixel.

> I have to change the resolution/colors in macos before boot ?

yes, the video card and monitor usually settle on a "prefered"
resolution, and X lives with that.  With one bit per pixel.  Most of the
HW I have, the monitor tells the computer what it can do, and MacOS (or
more accurately, as it happens before boot, the ROM) sets the resolution
accordingly.  The idea of choice was not big at Apple Computer at that
time. :)  Sounds like you have some newer video HW than I have.

> BTW, I have a quadra, but I bet a 950 will never be decently
> supported... mY q610 has gone into the paradise of old 68k computers
> (well, or purgatory, I don't know). I loved that box.

yep.  Got a Q610 myself.  Works well...
Quadra 650 is probably most popular with developers, and my Quadra 840av
is wickedly un-pathetically slow (no, just couldn't get myself to say
"fast" there. It isn't fast).  My Quadra 900 takes up way too much space.

Nick.