[SPARCbook] color depth

[jon fabian]

solaris 2.6 it is...

the closest thing I could find to what you describe is "ffbconfig", part
of the SUNWffb* packages. Unfortunately my wrist was slapped by pkgadd
(OK, admintool) which told me sternly that my system did not support
Creator Graphics.

Of course i didn't listen and went ahead with the installation. afterall,
the man page was an enticing read. but then my wrist was slapped yet
again when I tried it out on the console login:

#/usr/sbin/ffbconfig -propt
ffbconfig: /dev/fbs/ffb0: No such file or directory
ffbconfig: cannot open device /dev/fbs/ffb0

#/usr/sbin/ffbconfig -dev /dev/fbs/p9100:0
ffbconfig: /dev/fbs/p9100:0: not a FFB device
ffbconfig: cannot open device /dev/fbs/p9100:0

p9100:0 being a link to /devices/iommu...

D'Oh!

stuck in 8-bit land

jon

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:31:09 -0500, Bob Krzaczek wrote:

>Thus spake jon fabian:
>; how many colors is a sparcbook 3gx capable of displaying on the tft?
>; i _thought_ it was 24-bit color ... but i can't seem to get either
>; gnustep/ windowmaker or cde to run in any mode other mode than 8-bit
>; pseudocolor.
>
>You didn't mention which version of Solaris you're using; I'm going to 
>presume 2.6 and go from there.
>
>Are you familiar with the `fbconfig' utility? Check out its man page
>for full details on setting it up, driving all sorts of external
>monitors, and other fun stuff, but here's the fast version:
>

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