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From: richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: VP/ix under 386/ix thinks console is monochrome
Message-ID: <487@octelb.octel.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 91 16:58:47 GMT
References: <1991May07.214428.10067@icsep486.sccsi.com> <691@hitachi.uucp>
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
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In article <691@hitachi.uucp> jon@hitachi.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan) writes:
 >In article <1991May07.214428.10067@icsep486.sccsi.com> jeffn@nuchat.sccsi.com.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) writes:
 >>I'm running 386/ix 2.2 on a Micronics 486 and an Orchid Prodesigner II VGA
 >>card with 1 MB of RAM on board.  X11 works fine in color at all resolutions
 >>but for some reason my VP/ix thinks the system is monochrome now.
 >
 >I had *exactly* the same problem.  It's some disagreement between VP/ix
 >and the Prodesigner.  If you get another board (I've had good luck with
 >a Paradise board, a Paradise clone, and a Compaq built in VGA)
 >everything will probably work OK.  I have no idea what the trouble is.


NONONONONONO --- This is an olde problem with VP/ix -comment out the the romvga 
and romega entries in the vpix configuration file (.cnf) and then VP/ix will use the orchi
bios rather than the built in VP/IX bios

tada --
As a followup anybody get ventura working under VP/IX and prodesigner board?
If so how...

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