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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:32:41 +0800 (HKT)
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To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: mono video card not working in freebsd 3.0-980311-snap 
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
> >hi, i recently installed freebsd 3.0-980311-snap.  all the docs say
> >freebsd supports monochrome video adapters (the really old stuff, with
> >very little ram and limited graphics support, ttl monitor output).
> >i plugged one in with an old mono monitor, works fine up until the kernel
> >is loaded.  on vga, text turns to bright white after this - in mono,
> >nothing more is displayed.  cursor just blinks and doesn't move.
> >the system boots and runs fine, but no output to the screen.
> >i recompiled the kernel with pcvt, booted from it, no change.
> >is this a new bug in freebsd 3.0?
> >(video card appears to have 4kbytes of ram, main chip number is tm6310)
> 
> Do you have the mono video card _alone_ in your machine?
> 
> If you have both a mono card and a VGA card, the console driver will
> use the VGA.
> Kazu

i've tried everything.  with both, the mono monitor has the blinking
cursor in the topleft corner and never moves.
with the mono alone, it goes as normal, asks for boot options, then after
the kernel is loaded - nothing moves.  i've tried 2 different mono video
cards that are almost identical.
is there anything i can do here to help isolate the problem?

thanks


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