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From: nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: VPIX and LPT1: and VGA
Summary: Additional wrinkle...
Message-ID: <25120@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 30 May 91 05:04:23 GMT
References: <1639@tronsbox.xei.com> <#M3+PGM@jwt.UUCP>
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <#M3+PGM@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>>   The theory is that if you remove vga.rom it will load the rom from the
>>   card and then you can set any mode you want .. is this true ????
>
>It works on some cards, but I think others have problems.
>-- 
>John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)

My additional problem in this story about removing commenting from vga.rom -
it doesn't work right!  When I comment out vga.rom, VP/ix boots and then
tries to boot my SCSI bios instead of the VGA bios!  It may boot the VGA,
but then I guess VP/ix goes and looks for anymore BIOS's it can boot and finds
my SCSI.  It dies after that.  (So bad I have to reboot Unix - via a cold
reset - fsck doesn't like that at all!)  Is there a way to config VP/ix
to look ONLY for the VGA bios and not any additional BIOS in the system?

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