On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:13:24AM +1000, Darryl Bond wrote: > > Do you have the foxboro fonts available (xlsfonts). You could try > (auto)mounting > the /usr/fox/wp/fonts from an AW and set the appropriate directory in the > XF86Config file. Not yet, but thats not the problem. If I get it to run at all, tahts a trivaial fix. > > Best of luck getting it to work with >8bit colour though. The blink task will > fail and screw up the colours on the DM. > I would dearly like to get this to work. 256 colours these days is just about > unusable. Two X servers work (:1 8bit & :0 24bit) but it's not something that > you can give to anyone. OK, am I confused or what. I contend it _only_ works with 256 colrs. Do you disagree? If so what do you think it requires? BTW shifting between X server with <ALT><F key> os trivaily easy to teach people. > > I tried the Matrox Overlay option which has 8 + 24bit. Trouble is the root > window is 8 bit so the window manager (gnome/kde) and apps think it has 8 bit > only. I haven't been able to get it to have a 24bit root window with 8 bit > overlay. > ??? so why do you need the 8 bit one, at all, if it isn't requiref for the Foxboro brain damage? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave