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From: fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6510300~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.i386
Subject: AT&T 3.2 Unix and VGA
Keywords: 386 Unix VGA
Message-ID: <2773@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 May 89 20:23:48 GMT
Expires: 17 May 89 23:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: fmcgee@cuuxb.att.com (Frank W. McGee)
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Someone sent me mail commenting about my comments on VGA support on AT&T
Unix System V 3.2 386 Release 2.1 (3.2 update).  Here's the breakdown
of VGA support on 3.2 Rel. 2.1.

3.2 2.1 Does support System V VGA IOCTL's to do VGA on Unix System V.
However, I don't know of even a single package that uses these to do
graphics on the console (if you know of some, you can email me and I'll
summarize and re-post).  This does NOT NOT NOT include support for ANY
Xenix VGA calls.  This means that if you buy the Xenix version of
Autocad 9.0 and tell Autocad that you have a VGA display, you get a
nice blank screen.

There will be a new version of the X WIN server this summer that
supports VGA, and there will be an upgrade for current X WIN users; if
I remember right there will be an upgrade fee but it won't be over
$200.  When it's available I'll post or email the upgrade procedure to
those that are interested.  About the only way to take advantage of
VGA on System V is to use X WIN; I've seen the VGA X WIN server when
it was in beta, and it looked pretty nice.

-- 
Frank McGee, AT&T
Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support
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