'X' emulating Monochome displays ?

[Will Backman]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 22:37 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > I am currently running a Mandrake 7.2 box as a CD writing server with XFree86 in monochrome mode. 
> > I am sure it can be done on Ubuntu.
> 
> Yes, this is what I would like to do... display shades of grey on my
> current Ubuntu machine, using my colour 17" monitor.
> 
> Will apparently managed to do it simply by adding "Visual "GrayScale" to
> the XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't work for me.
> I am probably just doing something wrong though. I added the line in the
> 'device' section.
> 
> Vince
> 
It should be in the Screen section, and in the Display subsection.
I added it right under where mine had the Depth setting.