VPIX Problems/Questions...
Rick Richardson
rick at pcrat.UUCP
Sat Jan 14 01:00:17 AEST 1989
In article <401 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>In article <5980002 at hplsla.HP.COM> jeffh at hplsla.HP.COM (Jeff Harrell) writes:
>>You mean VPIX is not resetting the graphics mode...
>
>No. I meant what I said. VP/ix can't get all the proper info from the
>card, therefore if you leave it in an unknown state it doesn't know
>about it, either the way it was, or the way it is.
Actually, one would think that all I/O to the registers are trapped by the
kernel. This makes it possible to know exactly what state even the
write-only registers are in. Whether or not this is being done
thoroughly is a question I can not answer.
However, the problem *may* not be VP/ix but rather the virtual terminals.
The following is specific to ISC's 386/ix, but the problems to be solved
are non-trivial and I could easily see SCO running into the same troubles.
I've noticed, on rare occasion, that regular UNIX programs that put
a virtual terminal into a graphics mode can also exhibit the problem
where switching out and then back leaves the screen blank. This doesn't
happen very often, but I've seen it with X-windows and with
graphics programs written here that tweek EGA registers.
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