ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) (10/26/87)
Does anyone have any insight into the reason why the console driver for SCO Xenix 2.2 no longer supports the ability to set the graphic box foreground and background colors? The setcolor(1) command has been enhanced to allow for additional settings such as cursor size settings, bell pitch and duration settings, and border color settings; and while it still shows support for setting the graphic box colors, it doesn't work! SCO are you listening? By the way this is on a system with an EGA monitor, which under 2.1.3 supports this feature correctly. -- ron@vsedev.vse.com (Ron Flax) uucp: ..!uunet!vsedev!ron inet: vsedev!ron@uunet.uu.net
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/05/89)
Environment: 386/20 with Maxlogic VGA card (based on Cirrus chip set) OS: SCO XENIX 2.3.2 I can't seem to get color text to display with this combination. I'm using the setcolor(C) command as a test. If you sa 'setcolor' with no arguments, you get a list of possible colors along with a box of that color. When I try this with my VGA card, nothing comes out in color. It acts exactly the same as if I had a monochrome display. I can take the same system, put in a CGA card, and i get the colors. Has anyone else seen this and come up with a fix? Before anyone points at my VGA card and says incompatible, I have used this card under VP/ix and displayed color graphics fine. j |%|John Lawitzke, Dale Computer Corp., R&D |%|UUCP: uunet!frith!dale1!jhl Work |%| uunet!frith!dale1!ipecac!jhl Home Inquiring minds just wondering. |%|Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu
jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton) (10/06/89)
In article <4863@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: > Environment: 386/20 with Maxlogic VGA card (based on Cirrus chip set) > > I can't seem to get color text to display with this combination. I'm > using the setcolor(C) command as a test.... > Before anyone points at my VGA card and says incompatible, I have used > this card under VP/ix and displayed color graphics fine. VP/ix is not an acid test for compatibility. Someone at the SCO Forum '89 remarked that setcolor(c) was the "Flight Simulator of Xenix" to test for EGA/VGA compatibility, and everyone in the audience chuckled. Try to get your hands on one of the "VGA Register Compatibility Test" diskettes that are floating around. The one I have is from Paradise. -- Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA ...uunet!applix!jim jim@applix.com