From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 9 01:22:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA07904 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07886 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 01:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA08179 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:19:11 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA05962 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:19:11 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA08132 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:10:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199609090810.KAA08132@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Support for fixed-scan monitors To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:10:11 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <323343E2.297D@sn.no> from Arve Ronning at "Sep 8, 96 03:08:34 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)