VP/ix under 386/ix thinks console is monochrome

[Jon Ryshpan]

In article <1991May07.214428.10067 at icsep486.sccsi.com> jeffn at nuchat.sccsi.com.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) writes:
>I'm running 386/ix 2.2 on a Micronics 486 and an Orchid Prodesigner II VGA
>card with 1 MB of RAM on board.  X11 works fine in color at all resolutions
>but for some reason my VP/ix thinks the system is monochrome now.

I had *exactly* the same problem.  It's some disagreement between VP/ix
and the Prodesigner.  If you get another board (I've had good luck with
a Paradise board, a Paradise clone, and a Compaq built in VGA)
everything will probably work OK.  I have no idea what the trouble is.

Jonathan Ryshpan		<...!uunet!hitachi!jon>