From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 23 23:52:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04817 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 23:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA04777; Sun, 23 Mar 1997 23:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA16321; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:51:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA22407; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970324082339.OG37907@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:39 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hitman.jack@djo.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You tell me... X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from hitman.jack@djo.com on Mar 23, 1997 17:47:50 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As hitman.jack@djo.com wrote: > Well, i NOW have freebsd 3.0 and was installing it with boot.flp for 3.0 > as i should, and while i boted from the floppy it did its thing, and > when it got to the end of decompressing the kernel, instead of going > into the setup menu ( ive done it with 2.1.7 ) it does some weird stuff > with the monitor. I have a VGA monitor, and a super VGA card on my > cyrix686 with 8 megs of ram. Well, it just shows a bunch of colorful > vertical lines spaced about a quarter of an inch apart, like it might > be a conflict with the SVGA and only a VGA monitor, i dunno though. Søren, i've heard this from other people as well, somebody locally told me about a Hercules Stringray card where this happens. Usenet recommends pcvt as a workaround :-], do you have an idea what this might be, or even better, have a fix? -- 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. ;-)