Making Radius Video Card Main Video OutPut.

[Mars478]

Hi there.
My IIci has a Radius DirectColorGX. The internal video does not work with my VGA monitor and adaptor. But I plugged in my VGA-Mac Adaptor to the Radius Card, and voila it worked.
But...
The only thing it displays is a gray screen that says "Radius" on the bottom left.
Does anyone know how to make this the main video out put source so that I can use this with my Monitor and not have to use my Dads work monitor to use my IIci?
Thanks!

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Hi there.
My IIci has a Radius DirectColorGX. The internal video does not work with my VGA monitor and adaptor. But I plugged in my VGA-Mac Adaptor to the Radius Card, and voila it worked.
But...
The only thing it displays is a gray screen that says "Radius" on the bottom left.

That's the DirectColorGX throwing up a "splash screen/whatever" onto the monitor while the IIci loads its OS & then loads the extensions. I'm guessing you don't see a little Radius Monitor icon along with the rest of the extension icons that march across the bottom of the main screen on startup? If so, then you don't have the RadiusWare extension/control panel installed to enable the IIci to make use of the DirectColorGX.

RadiusWare is a catchall term Radius' used for its drivers for everything from VidCards to Accelerators.

Have you tried all the usual sources for driver downloads?

If not, check the "Peripherals Links Project" for some ideas as to where to start looking. Since you own the card, you have a right to use the drivers, so there's no intellectual property nonsense to worry about.

[Mars478]

Well, there is a lil radius icon at the bottom when its loading. But right now I can't see anything as the internal video on my IIci does not want to cooperate with my Display and adaptor...
Is there a way to get the IIci internal video to like my display?
Oh I also found the RadiusWare, Ill see what happens when I install.

[trag]

If you do not have anything connected to the built-in video (you don't, do you, even a Mac-to-VGA adapter counts here) then the Mac should detect this and default the start-up screen and menu bar to the video card, which is the only video source detected to have a monitor attached.

If you do not have anything attached to the built-in video, but are still getting the symptoms you described, the first, easy thing to try would be to zap the PRAM. Boot up and hold down teh cmd, opt, P and R keys until you hear a second bong.

If that doesn't help, it may be that the Radius card is so old that additional gymnastics are required. My old video card days are long ago, so the memory is hazy, but I think if you hold down the R key during boot up (immediately after or even before the bong) that the Radius card will go into a set-up mode at start-up. I'm not sure about that R key thought. It might be the T key, for Thunder, too. I think E-Machines used the E.