From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 14:41:35 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 24CDA37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:41:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5D443FA3 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <200302132241320020030b50e>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:41:32 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C386A48463; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:44:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Walter" Cc: "Questions" Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:43:34 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: <3E4BF884.7040704@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: monochrome monitor Message-Id: <20030213224404.C386A48463@wastegate.net> 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 On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:56:52 -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!! cool. I run my home mail/firewall/natd/etc on a 486dx4/133 so you should be in good shape --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message