rickers@drexel.Drexel.edu (Rick Wargo) (08/28/87)
Hello - First a bit of background. Having recently purchased (6 months) Microport System V and trying to run it and Unify's Accell on our IBM AT, we have run into serious speed problems. Quick solution - purchase Intel's Inboard 386/AT with 1 megabyte of memory (upping the amount of memory to 4.5 Meg). But, alas, no quick answer. It seems that the Inboard defaults to 8 megahertz and the only way to get it to run at 16 MHz is thru software (now, c'mon Intel, why not something a bit easier? (purple->8-). Okay, but Intel only has a utility to do this for DOS. Hmmm.... This board was also purchased about six months ago. The other day, I called Intel (again), this time to find out that they have recently made available a driver for Microport System V to up the speed thru software (similar to that under DOS, where you hit Ctrl-Shift-Alt [1-4] corresponding to speed [1-4] for DOS. Okay, just got the driver today (thanks Intel for the speedy response) and realized that the speed improvement does not seem to be that wonderful when running Accell. This is partly do to a slow disk (Priam 60 meg external). But the speed is selectable by running a program called in- board (what else? 8-) and passing an argument 1 thru 4. But this still does not fix the other problem that the inboard creates - no colors! Apology for such a long introductory... Now to the point... I need a routine to reset the EGA board from Unix. I was told by Intel that this is all that is needed to get my colors back. So, my question is - How? I am not that familiar with programming the IBM, so any help would be greatly appreciated!! Please e-mail replies. Thanks in advance - Rickers ..!drexel!rickers