VGA and Term programs (Re: VGA under vpix 1.2 RE: the video bios)

Keith Ericson keithe at tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM
Fri Jul 20 10:02:32 AEST 1990


In article <2604 at corpane.UUCP> sparks at corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>
>While in unix, go to the vpix directory in your account, vi the vpix.cnf file
>and comment out the VGAROM and EGAROM line. Then go and enter vpix. it will
>use the card's BIOS from now on. 
>

I did this, and the result is that the machine does a virtual-terminal-specific
"cold/warm boot" (with the Video 7 FastWrite card) and then complains that it
cannot find the Adaptec 1542A SCSI disk controller card at Port 330.  After
hitting F1 to continue the boot process it brings up DOS OK, although the
FastWrite won't use it's color modes (the demo solitare cardgame from one of
the mouse vendors goes into b&w mode).

Weird...

kEITHe



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