Everhart, Glenn (FUSA)
From:	Fred Kleinsorge [kleinsorge@star.enet.dec_nospam.com]
Sent:	Friday, April 16, 1999 10:35 AM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: AS200/Matrox Millennium as a DECWindows device?
Roosevelt Jones wrote:
> 
> Is anyone running OVMS/DECWindows on an AlphaStation 200 with a Matrox
> Millennium video card? In general, is it overly difficult to create
> DECWindow graphic device support files for unsupported PCI video cards? Is
> there any documentation on how to do this?
> 
> Does anyone know what the original standard AS200/video card combinations
> that were sold which supported DECWindows? Anyone know why there was not a
> default DECWindows graphice device for the standard VGA mode developed and
> shipped with OVMS?

  The Matrox card is not supported, and at present we do not provide
documentation or a build environment for graphics development...
although I am thinking about doing it.

  If the Matrox card has a standard VGA, go into ISACFG at the console
and define a generic VGA something like:

>>> isacfg -make -handle ISA--VGA -slot 1

and boot the system (at least on a V7.1+ system).  This should load the
device driver SYS$GQZDRIVER which is a generic VGA driver, and the
generic VGA server should then automatically start.  Of course, it's
640x480 with 16 colors - i.e. standard VGA.