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From: vinnie@athena.mit.edu (Alvin C Shelton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: ESIX and ATI VGA Wonder
Keywords: ESIX, ATI, VGA
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.221728.471@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 90 22:17:28 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Reply-To: vinnie@athena.mit.edu (Alvin C Shelton)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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I've just installed ESIX Rev. D on my Northgate 25 MHz machine and I have
a few questions:

    1) I couldn't get the mouse on my ATI VGA Wonder card to work under
       the X Window System.  The mouse cursor just sat in the middle of
       the screen.  I tried IRQ2 and IRQ5 with no success.  The mouse is
       supposedly compatible with the Microsoft bus mouse and it does,
       in fact, work under DOS.

    2) Is there any way to use the higher resolutions of the Wonder card?
       Right now I can only use the card in standard VGA mode.

    3) xrdb doesn't work - it gives me a "len=0" message and doesn't attach
       any resources to the root window.  What's wrong?

    4) Is there any way to simplify switching between DOS and ESIX?
       (I don't have VP/ix yet! :-()  Right now I have to run fdisk to
       change the active partition and reboot.  A friend of mine has a
       simple boot utility which will start DOS by default but gives him
       the opportunity to boot OS/2 if he presses the proper keystroke.
       Does such a thing exist for DOS and UNIX?


			Thanks in advance,
			   Vinnie Shelton
			   vinnie@athena.mit.edu