aschaffe@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Allan Schaffer) (05/03/91)
About a week & a half ago I posted a few questions about VP/ix's treating of my ATI video card, and asked you all if you knew of a way to work around the problems.. Here's what I found out: [sorry, no attribution for those who answered.. but thanks to all] ----------------------- Problem 1: When I boot VP/ix, my text font is changed to a very ugly EGA- style font. It goes back to normal when I exit VP/ix, or when I run a Unix command from inside VP/ix (say, "ls"..). Total Fix: None Quick Fix: Save the boot image of VP/ix, (invoke using "vpix -s") then quit, and re-invoke VP/ix via "vpix -r". This works for general text stuff, but reverts back to the "ugly" font after any sort of graphics, etc.. i/o. Several people also suggested commenting both the EGAROM and VGAROM lines out of my vpix.cnf file. This didn't work though -- when I subsequently invoked VP/ix, the screen went blank and never looked back.. [I ended up rebooting, and trying several various permutations. Didn't find any] One person had a very intresting suggestion -- Boot DOS, and copy the video BIOS to a file (with Debug). Then, point the VGAROM variable at it. That didn't seem to work for me, though. ---------------------- Problem 2: When I go into Turbo C++, in 50 line mode, my cursor disappears. Total Fix: None Quick Fix: Hit <INSERT> twice. On my machine, the cursor goes "big" the first time, (indicating overwrite mode), then stays "big" the second time, but goes into "insert" mode. Good enough for me.. :-) ---------------------- A curious side-note: A few people wrote to me saying "I have the same problem - let me know if you find out anything!" .... which isn't anything strange. What *was* interesting was that they ALL had ATI cards. Hope this helps, [off to buy an Orchid Card..] Allan Disclaimer: My problems may have nothing to do with the ATI card. I may have something configured improperly. Consult your local ATI dealer. :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allan Schaffer | What's the best acceleration for a Mac? aschaffe@polyslo.calpoly.edu | ..!uunet!polyslo!holodec!allan | 9.8 m/s^2