mtp@ukc.ac.uk (M.T.Paley) (06/25/91)
Hello, I have the latest version of SCO Unix running on a 486 box with SVGA graphics ( an Orchid ProDesigner II with 1 Mb RAM). Recently I have been trying to get it to display some graphics but this seems unreasonably difficult. The options I know of are: 1 ) Use the CGI Graphics routines that came with the system. This would be very easy but it does not cope with SVGA, in fact I am not even sure if it copes with normal VGA. 2 ) Use X11R4 from uunet. This would work but I am not keen on using half my hard disk and all my RAM just to be able to display images. Does anyone know of another option? It is ludicrous that a system costing thousands of pounds is not able to display images at 800 by 600 in 8 bit colour when the graphics card is capable of almost double that. While I am here, Is there any way of allowing a fast 486 to boot SCO unix without slowing the clock down to 8 MHz then back up to 25 ? Matthew -- Matthew Paley, Space Science, Physics Lab, The University, Canterbury CT2 7NR \|/ Phone: 0227 764000 ext 3834 Fax: 0227 762616 --*-- JANET: mtp@uk.ac.ukc UUCP: ...!ukc!mtp /|\ STARLINK: KENT::MTP Postgrad working on LDEF MAP