VP/ix & ATI Video Card Problems - SUMMARY
Allan Schaffer
aschaffe at polyslo.calpoly.edu
Thu May 2 15:30:24 AEST 1991
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here's another message that I sent out, which was probably lost when the local
hub went down.. :-)
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About a week & a half ago I posted a few questions about VP/ix's treating
of my ATI video card, and asked you all if you knew of a way to work around
the problems.. Here's what I found out:
[sorry, no attribution for those who answered.. but thanks to all]
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Problem 1: When I boot VP/ix, my text font is changed to a very ugly EGA-
style font. It goes back to normal when I exit VP/ix, or when I run a
Unix command from inside VP/ix (say, "ls"..).
Total Fix: None
Quick Fix: Save the boot image of VP/ix, (invoke using "vpix -s") then
quit, and re-invoke VP/ix via "vpix -r". This works for general text
stuff, but reverts back to the "ugly" font after any sort of graphics,
etc.. i/o.
Several people also suggested commenting both the EGAROM and VGAROM lines
out of my vpix.cnf file. This didn't work though -- when I subsequently
invoked VP/ix, the screen went blank and never looked back..
[I ended up rebooting, and trying several various permutations. Didn't find
any]
One person had a very intresting suggestion -- Boot DOS, and copy the video
BIOS to a file (with Debug). Then, point the VGAROM variable at it. That
didn't seem to work for me, though.
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Problem 2: When I go into Turbo C++, in 50 line mode, my cursor disappears.
Total Fix: None
Quick Fix: Hit <INSERT> twice. On my machine, the cursor goes "big" the
first time, (indicating overwrite mode), then stays "big" the second time,
but goes into "insert" mode. Good enough for me.. :-)
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A curious side-note: A few people wrote to me saying "I have the same
problem - let me know if you find out anything!" .... which isn't anything
strange. What *was* interesting was that they ALL had ATI cards.
Hope this helps,
[off to buy an Orchid Card..]
Allan
Disclaimer: My problems may have nothing to do with the ATI card. I may
have something configured improperly. Consult your local ATI dealer. :-)
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