laefsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ira M. Laefsky) (01/19/90)
I am running rev 1.1 minix. While I have the upgrade files through 1.3 I can't do the compiles for the upgrade until I can see the results of my typing displayed on my VGA monitor. The system is an OSICOM More 286-12Mhz clone which uses a Faraday chipset motherboard and provides VGA video through a Western Digital chipset which emulates a Paradise VGA Board with 256K ram. My problem is that after I boot Minix and perform any command which produces more than about 10 lines of output (such as a "ls- al") everything after the the first 10 lines is displayed to a "non-screen" location after 1 or 2 more screenfuls of output the screen returns. While I have compiled a Turbo-C program to set the VGA mode I do not know how to lock this mode after a warmboot. Any suggestions or software to lock the VGA mode would be appreciated. Thank you Ira Laefsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu