Re: Graphic options for DS10L

BTW,

On my system, when the system is at the >>> prompt. the VGA display is
all blue with the cursor at the top left. The LCD display reports that
the display is set to 720 * 400,
Horizontal refresh of 31.5 kHz,
Vertical refresh of 70.1 Hz


The background is window's BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.

Is there some secret undocumented DS10L SRM environment variable to set
the background to a different colour ? I don't like Microsoft's
proprietary shade of blue :-( :-( :-(


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OK, I don't yet have a keyboard (long story)

Now, I have SET CONSOLE GRAPHICS at the >>> prompt (and included this in
the NVRAM script.

But this doesn't seem to make a difference as all console activity still
happens via the serial port. I assume this is because of lack of
keyboard overrides everything ?


When VMS boots, X has no problem starting and displaying the login
screen. However, the MOUSE which is connected does not move nor do any
of its buttons work. (the mouse seems to be an optical one and I can see
the red laights under it, indicating it is getting power).

Does the lack of keyboard automatically disable the mouse ?

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Is there a way to get the system to use the serial port as "keyboard" ?
Even though I may not have the full function of keystroke combinations,
it might give me enough functionality to start with.

(akaL: vaxstation's keyboard would be used on a SET HOST/DTE to the
ALPHA's serial port to send input characters).
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