Subject: Re: 3100, console driver/ serial console usage
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: David Burrows <snadge@gemcorp.com.au>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/13/1998 11:47:44
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On February 12, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> > > Is the graphics console working?
> > 
> > No. (Again, in this case I can't help you either.) I personally find using a
> > real terminal always better than using that graphical thing. What do you need
> > graphics for anyway? Using graphics on VAXen destroys their divine VAXness!
*snip*
I'm waiting on graphics console support too.  Not because I want to
display graphics, but because it has a 21" monitor which has a very nice
high resolution text mode which I can't use! :| And further more,  I can't
find a serial console for it.. and I don't want to plug a serial cable in
it and use another monitor, that defeats the purpose of having it
standalone.

> My God, No.
> 
>   X on a VAX running *BSD Unix with SMD disks is NIRVANA!!
>
X would be the ultimate to get working, but first things first.. Why can't
the text routines on the ROM chip be utilised with NetBSD?  Ragge? Anyone?
:)
> 
>   Gives me much wood.  Much wood, indeed.
> 
> 
>                    -Dave