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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Subject: Re: 16-colour X server? Message-ID: <BvwqD1.B6s@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX References: <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:19:49 GMT Lines: 15 In article <7656@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >Has anyone written / is anyone writing / are there any plans for a >16-colour driver for XFree386? This would be useful for those of us >with video boards with only 512k and should also be twice as fast as >the 8-bit version (unless vga is even more brain-dead than it seems). It would seem to make more sense to go out and spend $90 on a new, supported VGA card. Sure would be simpler than spending the time to write a new server. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us