Improved Monitors Control Panel/Utility?

[zigzagjoe]

Does anyone know of any improved monitor utilities for system 7.5?

I've got an Xceed card, and its extension is only compatible with Monitors control panel from 7.0. That control panel mostly works in 7.5 though not perfectly. It'd be nice to be able to invoke the Xceed extension without needing to replace that control panel.

Second part of the question - there's an extended PRAM value to set the default system video device early in the boot process. This is separate from the primary video device set by Mac OS as this is used very early so that happy mac/floppy disk/etc appear on that specified system video device. The xceed card likes to set this, and I'm trying to find a way to manipulate or at least clear it so the built-in video can be the main again. A/UX does not like secondary video device being the primary in the early boot process, best I can tell.

 

[zigzagjoe]

Interim fix - here's a very simple Init I wrote to reset the default video device to the SE30 internal video.

Specific use case is for a dual boot mac os and A/UX setup. I found that if the micron was set as the primary video during boot, A/UX wouldn't come up correctly. A/UX would load, both screens would work, but the cursor was missing/not working and network would not work either. Definitely Not Happy.

Reset the PRAM value for default video device (specifically, set it to SE/30 internal video) and A/UX boots normally and works fine. You can set the external card to be the primary monitor within A/UX finder if you so choose, it just seems like the early boot process needs to use the SE/30 monitor.

To use:
Put this extension into the A/UX MacPartition, use System picker to boot off it. Connect monitor, extension will clear the PRAM value during MacPartition boot and A/UX will boot normally using the SE/30 internal video as primary. Note during the first boot of MacPartition it will use the external as primary during early boot process, subsequent boots will use the internal.

It's definitely cumbersome and I'll try to find a better solution. It'd be nice to be able to boot A/UX without a second monitor available, even if I have to have a dummy plug connected to fool the Micron. I don't really want to modify the Micron ROM, though the capability does exist. Figuring out why A/UX doesn't like the micron would be nice too, but I suspect that is buried in A/UX's arcane startup procedures.