Problems with Paradise VGA

[Wm. Brian McCane]

In article <13593 at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh at rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
-In article <9031 at alice.UUCP> debra at alice.UUCP () writes:
->I have trouble getting an Everex Step 386/25 to work with AT&T System V-3.2.
->I have a Paradise VGA 16 card which works very well under miserable dos,
->but when I boot Unix the screen goes blank and remains black all the time.
->I can actually log on and perform a shutdown. I can also activate Simultask,
->which displays some garbage in a CGA-like mode. Upon exit from Simultask
->the system hangs.
-
-I've been told that you have to have a ``register compatible'' display
-adapter for it to work under most of the non-Messy-DOS OS's.
-
-I had similiar problems using a ATI EGA Wonder display adapter.  From
-what I was told, DOS uses the BIOS on the card to emulate a real EGA
-board.  Your UNIX probably knows nothing 'bout no steekin' BIOS ...
-

I originally had a problem with the ATI EGA Wonder also.  I found out
from the people at uPort that it would not work in enhanced mode.  The
enhanced mode allows you to start in CGA emulation, and run an EGA or
HERC program and the card automagically changes to the correct mode.
Without this feature turned on, the card comes up in the mode set by
the switchs, and by God it stays there.  Your Paradise may have this
same type of operation available.  Check the posiible switch settings,
and see if you can find it.

		good luck,
		brian