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From: jpr@dasys1.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VIDI broken?
Summary: Not necessarily
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.205934.29030@dasys1.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 90 20:59:34 GMT
References: <1990Mar6.033855.12531@lilink.com> <1016@upaya.lilink.COM>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <1016@upaya.lilink.COM> tbetz@upaya.lilink.COM (Tom Betz) writes:
>Quoth mikej@lilink.com (Michael R. Johnston) in <1990Mar6.033855.12531@lilink.com>:
>|Well, is it? I can't seem to get a definitive answer from SCO. I am running
>|a 386 with SCO 2.3.1 and and HP VGA card with an Imtec Color monitor. When
>|I try to switch fonts the screen seems to flicker quickly and then goes back
>|to it's original state. Anyone?
>Yeah, vidi is broken.  I asked about this a year ago, and it was
>broken then, and hasn't been fixed.

Maybe it's broken for VGA.

I have an EGA monitor, and I run 8 of my multiscreens on 43-line mode, and
the other 4 in 25-line mode.

To get more than two of those 43-liners going, I had to reconfigure the
kernel.
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Jean-Pierre Radley					      jpr@jpradley.uucp
New York, NY					      72160.1341@compuserve.com