draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Sir Dave of Wentworth) (11/01/88)
First I would like to thank the people who took the time to reply to my article. Well the summary says it all. Read ALL of the books. After looking at the paradise book for the VGA card and installing their driver the program worked fine. Here are the replys for all interested. =================================================================== Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 14:32:07 edt To: bu-tyng!draper Subject: Re: AutoCAD with Paradise VGA Card problems. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc In-Reply-To: <1751@bu-tyng.bu.edu> Organization: AT&T NSSC S. Plainfield, NJ Cc: In article <1751@bu-tyng.bu.edu> you write: >Hello All, > >I am posting this for a friend, however I will accept email replys >and summarize. > >I have installed AutoCAD (relaese 9.0) on a Compaq 386 with a Paradise >VGA card in it. The problem is that the pull down menus (across the top) >do not work. I have gone through the manual and looked at the book >Inside AutoCAD to make sure the installation was done correctly. I then >deleted everything and tried again with the same results. >I then put a Paradise EGA card into the same machine and reconfigured the >program for and EGA card and it worked! The VGA card works correctly >for all other applications that I have tried. >I think that are two possible problems. > >1) The VGA driver program on the disks are corrupted in some manner. > >2) The Paradise VGA card is not compatible with the program and/or >the VGA driver supplied. > >Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated. > I have just used a Paradise VGA Prof card in my AT&T 6386, with no problem w/ AutoCAD Rel 9. I used the Paradise supplied driver. AutoCAD needs to be configured for the ADI driver, with the Paradise INT number (7H ?) specifed. The driver HAS to be executed PRIOR to running AutoCAD. All of this in the Paradise Software manual. -- Rick Calder, AT&T National Systems Support Center [att!]rick!rick attmail!rcalder ==================================================================== Message-Id: <8810281519.AA03902@vax4> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 88 08:19:07 PDT From: decvax!sun!tc.fluke.COM!jfadams (Jim Adams) To: bu-tyng!draper Subject: Re: AutoCAD with Paradise VGA Card problems. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc In-Reply-To: <1751@bu-tyng.bu.edu> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA We have an identical system to the one you described and had precisely the same problem. We took our problem to our vendor and in turn, our vendor contacted Paradise. Paradise then sent to us a version of their driver that fixed the problem. Contact either your software vendor or contact Paradise directly for the revised driver. -- James F. Adams John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. Everett, Washington USA WORLD:jfadams@tc.fluke.COM UUCP:{ihnp4!uw-beaver,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,decvax!microsoft}!fluke!jfadams ARPA:fluke!jfadams@uw-beaver.ARPA GEnie:J.F.ADAMS CIS:74036,2517 ==================================================================== Once again, thanks all. Dave Draper UUCP: decvax!elrond!bu-tyng!draper Internet: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu Boston University Corporate Education Center 72 Tyng Road Tyngsboro MA 01879 649-9731 x14