jeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) (01/04/89)
I'm working with vpix and have come across a a few problems:
1) How do you install a different version of dos?
It may be documented but I can't find it.
2) When I use any graphics programs in vpix the
CRT is full of junk (mostly lines) when I exit
vpix. I'm using a vga card running xenix 2.3.1
and vpix 1.1? (not the controlled release).
3) A desktop publishing package I'm using (pfs-first Publisher)
works just fine in dos. In vpix I get garbage when
I print the graphics.
Anyone out there had the same problems? Are there any work arounds to
items 2 & 3?
thanks,
Jeff (spectra software) Harrelljbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (01/04/89)
In article <5980001@hplsla.HP.COM> jeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) writes:
=
=I'm working with vpix and have come across a a few problems:
=
= 1) How do you install a different version of dos?
= It may be documented but I can't find it.
You don't. The version of dos which comes with vpix has been
modified to work with vpix. Another version of dos will work, but it is
not supported.
= 2) When I use any graphics programs in vpix the
= CRT is full of junk (mostly lines) when I exit
= vpix. I'm using a vga card running xenix 2.3.1
= and vpix 1.1? (not the controlled release).
It sounds like you are not resetting the graphics mode. I can't
help beyond that since I don't use graphics here.
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Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-2867 jbayer@ispijeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) (01/07/89)
>You don't. The version of dos which comes with vpix has been >modified to work with vpix. Another version of dos will work, but it is >not supported. I no that! I didn't ask if it was supported- I asked if anyone new how to install a different version of dos! >It sounds like you are not resetting the graphics mode. I can't >help beyond that since I don't use graphics here. You mean VPIX is not resetting the graphics mode... ------ Jeff Harrell
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (01/07/89)
In article <5980002@hplsla.HP.COM> jeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) writes: > >>It sounds like you are not resetting the graphics mode. I can't >>help beyond that since I don't use graphics here. > >You mean VPIX is not resetting the graphics mode... No. I meant what I said. VP/ix can't get all the proper info from the card, therefore if you leave it in an unknown state it doesn't know about it, either the way it was, or the way it is. -- Jonathan Bayer "The time has come," the Walrus said... Intelligent Software Products, Inc. 19 Virginia Ave. ...uunet!ispi!jbayer Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-2867 jbayer@ispi
rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (01/13/89)
In article <401@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >In article <5980002@hplsla.HP.COM> jeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) writes: >>You mean VPIX is not resetting the graphics mode... > >No. I meant what I said. VP/ix can't get all the proper info from the >card, therefore if you leave it in an unknown state it doesn't know >about it, either the way it was, or the way it is. Actually, one would think that all I/O to the registers are trapped by the kernel. This makes it possible to know exactly what state even the write-only registers are in. Whether or not this is being done thoroughly is a question I can not answer. However, the problem *may* not be VP/ix but rather the virtual terminals. The following is specific to ISC's 386/ix, but the problems to be solved are non-trivial and I could easily see SCO running into the same troubles. I've noticed, on rare occasion, that regular UNIX programs that put a virtual terminal into a graphics mode can also exhibit the problem where switching out and then back leaves the screen blank. This doesn't happen very often, but I've seen it with X-windows and with graphics programs written here that tweek EGA registers. -- Rick Richardson | JetRoff "di"-troff to LaserJet Postprocessor|uunet!pcrat!dry2 PC Research,Inc.| Mail: uunet!pcrat!jetroff; For anon uucp do:|for Dhrystone 2 uunet!pcrat!rick| uucp jetroff!~jetuucp/file_list ~nuucp/. |submission forms. jetroff Wk2200-0300,Sa,Su ACU {2400,PEP} 12013898963 "" \d\r\d ogin: jetuucp
jeffh@hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) (01/16/89)
---Brian Chapman writes: >I wrote the screen driver for Xenix 2.3 and although I am >not on the VP/ix team, I implemented the screen driver >support for VP/ix. Please let me try and explain. I'm running VP/ix 1.1 and Xenix 2.3.1. I've got a 386AT and the GENOA VGA card (model 5100). I got the Genoa VGA card because it is highly recommended by AUTOCAD. Please let me try and explain. Those green lines spaced about 1/8th inch apart running the full length of the screen are a problem! A get this mess when I run any graphics programs. (AUTOCAD, FIRST PUBLISHER, FLIGHT SIMULATOR) So far the only way I've found to get rid of the lines is to execute vpix and exit back to xenix. --- Jeff ( don't like green lines ) Harrell