From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 24 00:16:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05637 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05628; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA05608; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:16:56 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199703240816.JAA05608@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: You tell me... In-Reply-To: <19970324082339.OG37907@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 24, 97 08:23:39 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:16:56 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hitman.jack@djo.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..