CGI 1.0.1 with a VGA adapter
SPIESMAN, BILL
spiesman at amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Sep 13 10:22:03 AEST 1990
In article <70 at thinc.UUCP>, ethan at thinc.UUCP (Ethan A. Lish of THINC) writes...
>
> After loading my Xenix Dev. Sys, I thought I would
>try the cgitest. It compiles correctly, but when I execute
>the binary it pauses, then bombs with the error msg;
>
> "Error -3000 opening device display"
>
I had the same problem. SCO gave me this:
How to make CGI 1.0.1 work with a VGA display under SCO XENIX Release 2.3
KEYWORDS: vga ega display adapter 1.0.1 xenix 2.3 error 3000
RELEASE: SCO CGI 1.0.1
PROBLEM: How can CGI 1.0.1, which has only an EGA display driver, be
made to work with SCO XENIX Operating System Release 2.3 with
a VGA display adapter installed?
SOLUTION: Rename the existing device file /dev/ega, then create a new
/dev/ega file that is a link to the device file /dev/vga.
To do this, log in as root and execute the following
commands:
# mv /dev/ega /dev/ega.old
# ln /dev/vga /dev/ega
Be sure the above ln(C) command is done with the arguments in the
correct order. Typing "l /dev/ega" should show 2 links, a major
number of 52 and a minor number of 5. See l(C) or ls(C) for more
information on how to interpret the format of the l(C) command.
IMPORTANT: This workaround will work correctly only when a
VGA display adapter is present in the computer. If an EGA
adapter is present, you must restore the original /dev/ega
file using this command:
# mv /dev/ega.old /dev/ega
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