[Info-vax] moving a graphics card to higher resolution

[JOUKJ]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 
> The GZ devices are in an ALPHAserver 1200 and an XP1000.  So far, so 
> good.
> 
> However, similar code for GY devices doesn't increase the resolution; it 
> stays at 1024x768.  The GY devices are in Personal Workstations.
> 
> For a long time, I have had a DEC 3000/600 in the cluster (as the only
> non-satellite ALPHA) and it also has a GY device.  It works at
> 1280x1024.  Thus, I am surprised that the code above doesn't up the
> resolution on the GY devices in the PWSs, considering that their
> graphics cards are certainly of a newer vintage than that on the
> 3000/600. 
> 
This GY device in the PWS is probably a Powerstorm 3D30. I have vague 
remembrance (please correct me if I'm wrong) that this card can set to 
another resolution by setting dip-switches on the board itself.

                     Jouk