[SPARCbook] How to change screen res/pixel depth w/o TAD utilities

[James Meacham]

I don't know whether it is my own lack of expereince with Solaris or a bug
in the system somewhere, but I can't get the TAD packages from the Tadpole
FTP site to install on my 3GX with a non-Tadpole install of Solaris 2.6.
I posted about this before, but none of the suggestions took care of the
entire problem (i.e. some of the Solaris packages installed with pkgadd -d
. , but the TADpole ones didn't).  In any event, I'b sick if 8 bit color
at 800X600, and I was wondering the quick way to change it to something in
16 bit and, if possible, with a larger virtual screen.  If this was Linux
or BSD, I'd have it done in a second, but I'm right now just getting my
solaris (as opposted to SunOS4.0, which I used some years ago) legs.
Thanks very much.  Peace,

James