I had posted a question about getting openwindows working in
the monochrome screen on a Sun 3/110 with a damaged cgfour card and
a grey scale monitor. I got the following response from Tom Olin.
>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 12:11:05 EST
>From: adiron!tro@uunet.UU.NET (Tom Olin)
>Message-Id: <9111121711.AA04210@sunlite.partech.com>
>Subject: Re: Restricting Openwindows to Monochrome
>Use "xnews -dev /dev/bwtwo#" (or "openwin ..."), where # is the correct number
>for the overlay plane of the cg4. You might have to create the /dev entry with
>mknod. I'm not familiar with the 3/110, but the 3/60 has a monochrome
>framebuffer built into the system board, so the cg4 overlay plane might be
>named bwtwo1 or bwtwo0. You can use "sunview -d /dev/bwtwo#" to experiment.
> Tom Olin tro@partech.com uunet!adiron!tro (315) 738-0600 Ext 638
> PAR Technology Corporation * 220 Seneca Turnpike * New Hartford NY 13413-1191
Sure enough
openwin -dev /dev/bwtwo0
worked. (Actually, I thought I had tried this, but I think I tried
putting the option somewhere inside the file openwin rather than passing
it as an argument, and I must have gotten ensnarled in the syntax of
the shell file.)
Leonard Evens len@math.nwu.edu 708-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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