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From: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld)
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Subject: Hercules (MDA) adapter and FreeBSD
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Hi all,

	I've finally gotten hold of a Hercules mono adapter and monitor. 
	It  seems to work fine  except when I boot FreeBSD  and the VGA and
	MDA cards are both present (BIOS set to MONO).  The first few lines
	of the kernel probe flash and then blank screen, a few seconds lag,
	and ddb> pops up  on the screen  (mono).  Is this  due to the  fact
	that both  cards are present, thus  creating a conflict (mono being
	probed as well as vga) ?  I haven't tried pulling out the VGA while
	booting yet. 

							-- Phil 

	PS: If anyone  has got this setup  working, I'm interested (console
	on Hercules, and X on VGA).