[17808] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8-bit display mode under athena-linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Apr 25 11:09:15 2000
To: abie <abie@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 25 Apr 2000 11:09:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: abie's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:49:59 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hk8hm43qk.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
abie <abie@MIT.EDU> writes:
> on the sun machines, there is an option in the login screen (under
> other options) to restart x in 8-bit mode. this is not present as an
> option on the linux login screen. it is really important to me for my
> research, although the simple work around is to use sun machines
> instead of linux.
Thank you for your bug report.
We are aware of the problem (incidentally, which data analysis tool
are you using that has this problem?).
We hope to have a suitable fix in place for the Athena 8.4 release,
probably with the same kind of login button that we have on the Sun
platform, but we aren't sure yet if it will work.
