[Info-vax] How to MOTIF?

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <816c1bb4-289c-4747-9598-f328f143162a at j35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, urbancamo <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:
>The ZX6000 normally ships with an AGP graphics card. 

That would explain it. Thanks

>I forget what I had to do specifically to OpenVMS configuration to get
>the graphics card working, but it isn't hard.

Will ask again, if I hit a roadblock then...

>NOTE: not all ATI PCI 7500 cards are the same - some are *called* the
>same but actually contain the mobile 7500 graphics chip which isn't
>supported. The card generally needs to look like those shipped by
>island systems. Apparently the all-in-one 7500 pci series has also
>given success.

I know of the 7500 and their variants (as I wrote here months/years ago)
Problem is, that I so far had no source for them. (And Island is far
beyond my budget for this old/hobby system). So, I started w/o X11 then.

>The MP card contains a VGA chip which apparently works with OpenVMS
>but I've not managed to get mine to produce anything yet, but that's
>down to me I think.

Wanna ask here for help? (COV needs more technical topics anyway
and Itanics seem to finally come to the hobbyists :-)

>p.s. if you get a graphics card, be sure to remove any AGP card and
>put the graphics card in the middle PCI slot. I've noticed visual
>artifacts due to the position of the card (though don't ask me why)

So, I need to open the box and see what I'll find then.

Thanks

-EPLAN

PS: Next problem would be then, where to get more diskspace. I've only
2 disks (currently in a systemdisk shadowset) with caddies. Adding 2 more
(for the nex shadowset) isn't possible (as there is only one more slot
(and I only can get disks, but not caddies, so far). Still not that easy
on the hobbyist segment for itanic options...
-- 
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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