ray@intvax.UUCP (Larry P. Ray) (12/11/90)
I am having some difficulty using an Orchid ProDesigner w/ 512K memory, and am wondering if there are any well-known bugs or peculiarities to this card. When I replace the Paradise VGA in a working UNIX 386 system with the Orchid, the system becomes crash-prone. First, access to the Archive tape drive crashes the system. There is no warning; the system suddenly begins executing the boot-up sequence. After successfully completing the memory test, the system "hangs" until a hardware reset. The published I/O port addresses for the VGA and tape cards do not overlap. Second, when Thomas Roell's recent VGA X11R4 driver is run, the system crashes as above, on exit. The ProDesigner is based on the Tseng Labs ET3000 chip set; this is one of the chip sets the Roell server can be set up for (yes, the configuration files are correct). Finally, another user reports an inexplicable conflict between the ProDesigner and a particular DOS setup (sorry, no details) - the effect was that color setups were modified by unrelated software. In this case, switching to the ProDesigner II fixed the problem. Has anyone else seen or solved similar problems? Larry Ray ray@cs.sandia.gov Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico -- Larry Ray lpray@cs.sandia.gov Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico