RobC wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2016 10:00 pm
Good to see Drobe back up and running.
On another note, I'm struggling to get X running in 256 colour mode. Has anyone got this up and running?
EDIT: Now figured how to do this - just had to modify the startx script to call Xarm with the -c8 parameter in the line that runs xinit.
Thanks,
Rob
Sorry to dig up an old thread. Thanks for this hint Rob. Just in case anyone else is also trying this, it is possible to get 256 colour mode without altering any scripts. I'm running RISCiX 1.2.1c (
https://www.4corn.co.uk/articles/riscix121c/) in Arculator 2.1 (
https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/arculator). After following the instructions on 4corn to configure the RISCiX image in Arculator 2.1 (I used an A540 emulation model with 16MB RAM, RISC OS 3.1, Acorn AKA31 SCSI podule with the RISCiX disk image mapped to SCSI device 0, Multisync monitor), I used your suggestion to disable automatic monitor type detection in RISC OS's !Configure app (selecting SVGA monitor type and leaving automatic mode selection enabled). After making all the necessary changes on the RISC OS side, I hard reset Arculator before attempting to enter RISCiX.
Once at the RISCiX console prompt to select 256 colours I ran startx using the following command line:
#startx -- -svga -c8
The -svga switch seems unnecessary. Once in X windows (motif), I used the Utilities->Colour Map to test the 256 colour palette.
It is fantastic to be able to play with RISCiX - something I wasn't able to do back in the day when I had my old A440/1 or A4000 at Uni. To be able to do this at no cost in an emulator is even more amazing (thanks @Sarah Walker). Thanks also to everyone on this thread for giving me loads of hints and tips to get going.
Cheers
Dinan