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Re: Ultra 5 and 10 colordepth issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Feb 10 17:04:56 1999

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:51:31 -0500
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199902101723.MAA01172@nephthys.grey17.org>

At 12:23 PM 2/10/99 -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
:)> One naive question, since I don't grok how it all fits together:
:)> when you were contemplating the pre-login idea, was the idea for the
:)> back end something that could be used to provide some sort of manual
:)> session-based switching by the user?  Is there something less
:)> persistent they could do than run m64config/afbconfig?
:)
:)There's nothing less persistent than m64config or afbconfig that I
:)know of.  We'd have to teach xlogin to revert the change after the
:)special session.

or assert the condition every time?  just with different parameters for one 
kind of session versus the other?

mike



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