> >>anyone know if they will ever get this thing to run on > 8bit displays?
> >>kinda sux booting X in 256 color mode just to play quake..
> >
> >Hm, usually, I switch to the next available VC and start a second X
> >session with 8bpp (only for running xquake :) ).
>
> How do you do this? I've always thought it should be possible, but
> whenever I've tried, I've got errors saying that there is already
> and X server running. Any ideas (this is XFree86 on Intel, BTW). I
> haven't yet tried it on Sparc -- not enough time at work :-(
>
just 'startx -- :1' - if your xinitrc or something has :0 then it might
be bit harder... (RH4's default configuration has :0 :( )