lls@kings.co.uk (Lady Lodge Systems) (02/10/91)
I've just built Herr Roell's 8th November X386 and need some clues to get it running on my Oak VGA Card (the previous non-configurable version of X386 worked at 720x540). I've tried pretending it's a PVGA, ET3000 and ET4000 but just get blackness on the monitor. Anyone any ideas as to what the Oak Card actually is? If the response is junk it and buy a decent card - OK but what suggestions? My colour Mitsubishi monitor can hack 64 KHz (1240x1024 I believe) so what are the options? Thanks. PS - if anyone in the UK needs Herr Roells stuff let me know. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Peter King. | Voice: +44 733 239445 | | King Bros (Lady Lodge) Ltd | EMAIL: root@kings.co.uk | | Lady Lodge House, Orton Longueville, | UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!kings!root | | Peterborough, PE2 0HZ, England. | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/11/91)
In article <706@kings.co.uk> lls@kings.co.uk (Lady Lodge Systems) writes: | If the response is junk it and buy a decent card - OK but what | suggestions? My colour Mitsubishi monitor can hack 64 KHz (1240x1024 I | believe) so what are the options? SWAN sells a board based on the ET4000, which is available with 1MB for $199. It works with all the DOS software, and with V.4 VGA software. I'm waiting for someone else to do the port to V.4, since competent people are working on it at Dell, so I heven't tried the fancy modes. I have a lot of 1152x900 stuff from Sun which I want to try when it's available. If you're running V.3.2 and have the server already built, you can just change it to ET4000 while the card is in the mail. BTW: the card was advertized for $229 with 1MB, by I waited too long to order it, and the price went down to $199. Who says procrastination doesn't pay? -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
tmh@bigfoot.FOKUS.GMD.DBP.DE (Thomas Hoberg) (02/21/91)
In article <706@kings.co.uk>, lls@kings.co.uk (Lady Lodge Systems) writes: |> I've just built Herr Roell's 8th November X386 and need some clues to |> get it running on my Oak VGA Card (the previous non-configurable version |> of X386 worked at 720x540). |> |> I've tried pretending it's a PVGA, ET3000 and ET4000 but just get |> blackness on the monitor. |> |> Anyone any ideas as to what the Oak Card actually is? |> Oak is Oak, neither Tseng nor PVGA. There are actually two chips. The Oak-37 and the Oak-67. The former will do 256 colors only at 320x200, the latter will go to 800x600 with 512kb RAM. It has separate read/write pointer bank switching registers, so it could work with Tom's server. The address/bits of those registers are incompatible with Tseng though. |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> | Peter King. | Voice: +44 733 239445 | |> | King Bros (Lady Lodge) Ltd | EMAIL: root@kings.co.uk | |> | Lady Lodge House, Orton Longueville, | UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!kings!root | |> | Peterborough, PE2 0HZ, England. | | |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --tom ---- Thomas M. Hoberg | UUCP: tmh@bigfoot.first.gmd.de or tmh%gmdtub@tub.UUCP c/o GMD Berlin | ...!unido!tub!gmdtub!tmh (Europe) or D-1000 Berlin 12 | ...!unido!tub!tmh Hardenbergplatz 2 | ...!pyramid!tub!tmh (World) Germany | BITNET: tmh%DB0TUI6.BITNET@DB0TUI11 or +49-30-254 99 160 | tmh@tub.BITNET