Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:16:56 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hitman.jack@djo.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You tell me... Message-ID: <199703240816.JAA05608@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <19970324082339.OG37907@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 24, 97 08:23:39 am"
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> 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?
>From remote observation it seems to be a problem with the card not
understanding the normal VGA modetable (that the cards supplies
anyway :( ), so removing any ways to reprogram the VGA regs cures the
problem. If anybody has a spare card to send me I'll find a way to fix
it, but doing remote debugging, well, I dont have the time currently...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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