From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 9 12:01:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA18643 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from stt3.com (stt3.com [198.107.49.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA18637 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:01:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from eris.stt3.com(really [192.168.0.101]) by stt3.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:01:39 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2 built 1996-Sep-2) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:00:37 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: Nate Williams cc: William Robertson , Joe Kelly , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Laptop Question. In-Reply-To: <199701091930.MAA07625@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > Can the 560 do 800x600? > > > > yes. > > Are you able to get XFree86 running at 800x600@8bit on it? > > > Also, I don't know of any X servers that can > > go better than 8-bit with the LCD screens, even though under Windows 3.1 > > I can do 16-bit color on my older 755CX. > > > > i'm hoping that improvements to Xfree86 3.2 will do better than 8-bit, > > since they support the 560 video chip. right now the video seems a > > bit washed out. > > > > i've heard that the new xinside server will do 16 bit on the 560. > > I've been having a hard time getting information out of XInside > lately. :( > > > Nate > I started to try to install the X-inside server on my Tecra but the C&T 165550 support was marked as beta or something so I gave it a skip and went to XF8632 Brian Beattie +1.503.690.1570 x6116 Dynamics Research Corporation 19545 NW Von Neumann Dr FAX 690.1569 Beaverton, OR 97006-6998 beattie@stt3.com "I am Pentium of the Borg. Division is futile. you will be approximated!"