Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:10:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Support for fixed-scan monitors Message-ID: <199609090810.KAA08132@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <323343E2.297D@sn.no> from Arve Ronning at "Sep 8, 96 03:08:34 pm"
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As Arve Ronning wrote: > > Syscons (and pcvt) should start the same device as the BIOS, anyway. > Given the quirks of BIOSes, that would have to be the [CEV]GA. I > don't think syscons knows which device is being used by BIOS (please > correct me if I'm wrong here). I haven't checked pcvt. So, I believe > this is mostly a matter of choice (and not of using what BIOS uses). This is a mistake of motherboard and BIOS vendors. There used to be a jumper on the motherboards back in the old days, denoting the prefered graphics console. (The BIOSes usually complained if it was set wrong, i.e. choose a nonexistant adapter.) pcvt correctly honors it, but i agree that this feature is now almost worthless. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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