VP/ix and the Everex Viewpoint VGA card

[Paul de Bra]

In article <167 at kumr.UUCP> pozar at kumr.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes:
>   VP/ix doesn't work with an Everex Viewpoint VGA card (512K and bios 1.06),
>card as in the regular installation that comes with VP/ix. 
>
>SOLUTION:
>   Rename /usr/vpix/defaults/romvga to something else like 
>/usr/vpix/defaults/romvga.old. 

NO! The solution is to uncomment the EGAROM and VGAROM lines in
/usr/vpix/defaults/vpix.cnf
This is documented with AT&T's Simultask. Probably with others too.

Unfortunately this only works for vpix. There is no simple trick to
enable the special features of a VGA card from within Unix. The
available modes are all precoded. So you better look at the list
of supported VGA-cards before you buy either Unix or a VGA-card.

Paul.
(debra at research.att.com)