Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jetson!john
From: john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO VP/ix - X-WINDOWS
Message-ID: <139@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
Date: 13 Sep 88 17:22:08 GMT
References: <6@norad.UUCP>
Organization: SMART HOUSE Limited Partnership
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In article <6@norad.UUCP>, fag@norad.UUCP (Florian Gutzwiller) writes:
> In the defaults-directory of vpix  I  could
> only  find  a  file  supporting EGA Monitors  and  none  for  the
> Hercules.  Does anybody have such a driver for Hercules ?

The file you see in there (romega) is not a driver per se, but an
image of a BIOS ROM for an EGA card.  VP/ix maps this file into the
address space instead of the EGA card's own BIOS because most of the
EGA BIOSes don't have some features necessary for VP/ix's screen
switching.  Hercules cards have no BIOS, so no such file is necessary
for VP/ix to use them.  VP/ix supports Hercules cards just fine; I
have one and have run several Hercules-supporting graphics programs
under VP/ix.

> Do  they  also support VGA drivers?

SCO supports VGA graphics in 2.3 and later (and maybe 2.2.3) in
general.  I have no idea what their X-Windows support will look like.

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