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
jad@nyama.UUCP (05/05/91)
In <1991May02.225744.8002@holodec>, aschaffe@polyslo.calpoly.edu (Allan Schaffer) writes: >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: [ 2 Problems with video mode in vp/ix and quick work arounds... ] >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..] It's too bad for Ati. Their card is great for dos, and it does include a mouse! Their problems with Unix (no colour at installation time, apparant bad fonts, can't convince vp/ix that mono ega *is* a reality on a ttl monitor) will only keep Ati out of the unix market. So, who's got the best deal in ET4000 chip sets around? >Allan >Disclaimer: My problems may have nothing to do with the ATI card. I may > have something configured improperly. Consult your local ATI dealer. :-) (Invariably their response has been: it should work... you can send it in ... *sigh*) -- Jose Dias jad@nyama.UUCP Who me? I didn't say anything!
rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) (05/06/91)
jad@nyama.UUCP writes: >It's too bad for Ati. Their card is great for dos, and it does include >a mouse! Their problems with Unix (no colour at installation time, >apparant bad fonts, can't convince vp/ix that mono ega *is* a reality >on a ttl monitor) will only keep Ati out of the unix market. For what it's worth, I'm running an ATI 8514 Ultra alongside a Paradise VGA Pro and this combo works great for both VPIX and X/Motif. In fact, the 8514 Ultra has some of the slickest setup software I've seen anywhere, making the whole thing relatively painless. Note that this is *not* the version of the Ultra that has VGA and mouse port also included on the same card; I believe that one is called the Ultra Plus (or +). If anyone has used that card with ISC 2.2, I'd be interested in knowing about it. -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions rolfe@w3vh.UUCP | 17 Saint Luke's Place {uunet}!w3vh!rolfe | New York, NY 10014 (413) 528-5966 | (212) 463-0029