From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 11:56:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6718A37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:56:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2B643F75 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18jPTY-0007T6-00; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:56:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4BF884.7040704@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:56:52 -0500 From: Walter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Reynolds Cc: Questions Subject: Re: monochrome monitor References: <20030212221417.4971348463@wastegate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:05:46 -0500, Walter wrote: > >>I have no manual for this (used) Acer Pentium 120. >>The Acer web site does not appear to have schematics >>or other MB information (that I could find). And >>looking at the MB I see nothing that leads me (a >>non-tech) to think there's a VGA/MGA selector. >>Anything particular writing or abbreviations I >>might look for? (Good thought.) > > sometimes they say "vid" "video" "vga/mono" "color/mono" > > but since it is a "brand name" that has been mass produced (ie designed > to log into AOL and play solitare), it probably doesn't have one, or it > is labeled something obscure like "JP34" or something like that. :( Nothing like that I saw on the Acer.. BUT! I also have an (old) HP 486, and on its MB there's a VGADIS set of pins. So moving the jumper over allowed the monochrome monitor to work (disabled the VGA)! THANKS!! Walter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message