Everex VGA with SCO Xenix 2.3.1

[Jim O'Connor]

Just thought I'd pass along an experience I went through lately.

I recently decided to get a VGA card, so I went shopping and found an
Everex EVGA board at a good price.  It wasn't on the SCO supported list, but
the docs said anything that completely emulates the IBM VGA board would work,
and this board said it did, so I bought it.  (I have discovered that just
because it's not on SCO's list doesn't mean it won't work).

Well, this time SCO was right.  The Everex EVGA card that I had (which the
dealer said was in perfect working order) did not work correctly.  Under
Xenix, the right most three characters of an 80-column screen would not
appear, and not all of my DOS graphics programs would work correctly.

Luckily, my dealer had a Paradise VGA Plus 16 that was installed in a demo
system (which I new WAS on SCO's list), so I bought the Everex under the
condition I could trade it for the Paradise is the Everex didn't work.

Well, the Paradise is now in my system and works great!  I haven't found
anything yet that doesn't work correctly on it, so I'm now an almost
happy person (see earlier article about mouse woes).
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James B. O'Connor			jim at tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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