SUMMARY: Openwin setting for Trident VGA card?

From: Joe Hartley (jh@cadre.com)
Date: Tue Jun 29 1993 - 11:27:48 CDT


As promised, here's the summary post for my questions.

>1) Since the Trident VGA video cardisn't listed among the choices at
> installation time, has anyone discovered a working substitute?
>2) What's the probable refresh rate for a generic S-VGA monitor working
> off the Trident card?

No direct answers to this one, but someone at SunSoft wrote to say that
a patch is in the works to add a PMI file for the Trident 8900 (B and C)
running at 1024x768 with 256 colors at a 60 Hz refresh rate.

>3) Assuming answers to 1 & 2, how can I tell Solaris to use a different
> video adapter without doing a complete re-install?
The manuals were no help on this, but I finally discovered a file
/etc/openwin/share/etc/OWconfig which stores the path of the .pmi file
and other OW config information. By editing that, I was able to try a
number of different settings with no success, other than to have different
odd things happen to my screen.

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