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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I have an S3 Trio3D AGP video card (4MB RAM, VESA 2.0) which worked fine 
in another computer.  This computer has PCI ethernet and scsi cards, ISA 
modem and ISA/pnp sound (Awe64) and a jumpered ISA I/O card to replace the 
bad floppy controller and bad primary IDE controller (the master part was 
okay, the slave intermittent).  It is 533MHz and sometimes freezes up when 
I try to go into CMOS setup.  It took a lot of juggling of IRQs with 
ctcu/ctcm, and BIOS setup, to get sound to work in linux (at which point I 
cannot play .wav files in DOS - which requires IRQ9 to play wav, but plays 
midis okay with irq5).

When I run the following DOS programs they display not in the usual color 
but in grey and white:
syschk
SB16's diagnose or ctcu
vuimg image viewer

Compushow gives a runtime error 200

lxpic displays properly in color.
So do 'display', pictview (both freeware), qv (quicktime viewer) and sea3, 
and after using any of these four programs, the other programs that were 
displaying grey also display properly in color.

In linux, I was getting 'illegal' messages when I tried to use any 
svgalib program (zgv, links2 from delilinux) or Xvesa until I fixed this 
problem in DOS.

To fix it in DOS, I put a line at the end of autoexec.bat
pictview image.jpg

When I boot, I hit the ESC key to get back to a prompt instead of an 
image.


The grey problem occurred before I put in the I/O card.  In CMOS I set 
IRQ14 and 3 to ISA not pnp.  BIOS lists only the sound card as pnp.  It 
finds the modem at IRQ9 but ctcm later changes this.  IRQ9 is used in 
conjunction with IRQ2 somehow as 'cascade' and is not available in linux.

Is there some better way to fix this problem?  Maybe even one that does 
not require DOS, or is it DOS that is causing the problem?  (I should try 
booting with 2-floppy BL3 to check this).

So this is a completely different type of XVESA problem that also affects 
svgalib.



keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org