xenix 286 install failure

Jonathan Bayer jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Sun Jul 16 22:11:51 AEST 1989


eli at spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:

}funny flashing characters on the screen (hercules monochrome) indicate
}that something is wrong, and prompts do not get shown on the screen
}unless i hit 24 returns.  the system sees all the returns i hit and
}responds to them -- but i don't see the output until i have hit an
}entire screenful of returns.

}i suspect that my bios is the culprit.  it is a clone "magitronic" bios.
}also, i wonder if there is some sort of problem using xenix 286 with
}an everex hercules clone card...

It is the Everex card.  It has a display problem.  Call Everex and get a
patch they have available.  The installation went fine, it is just the
card that is messing up.



JB
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