Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!att!pacbell.com!pacbell!sactoh0!enc From: enc@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Erez N. Carmel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Xenix, VP/ix, and VGA Message-ID: <4448@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> Date: 9 Dec 90 17:42:21 GMT References: <1990Dec6.213141.14357@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca. Lines: 21 I am also using the Cirrus chipset in the Reneisance board, and was able to get color by removing the ROMVGA and ROMEGA entries from vpix.cnf. Once this is done, VPIX calls the card's bios at initialization and then proceeds with the boot. The result is full VGA colors, and one undsired side effect... (keep reading) I also have a SCSI board plugged in, for my tape drive. The SCSI bord also has a bios, with initialization code. After VPIX executes the VGA initialization, it proceeds to execute the SCSI initialization... no harm, though, since this is not connected to my disk. Over all -- it works. -- ############################################################# # E. Carmel, Sacramento, Ca. # # ...ames!pacbell!sactoh0!telelnk!ecarmel # #############################################################