From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 9:52:12 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 03BDC37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:52:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.dweebsoft.com (ra.dweebsoft.com [209.237.40.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767E743FBF for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deckenberg@dweebsoft.com) Received: from daxhome (daxhome.dweebsoft.com [192.168.10.10]) by ra.dweebsoft.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id h17Hq4R5094181; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deckenberg@dweebsoft.com) Message-ID: <147a01c2ced1$a03f87c0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> From: "Dax Eckenberg" To: "Walter" Cc: "Questions" References: <3E43EACE.6050104@earthlink.net> <146201c2cecd$fb631f30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <3E43F01D.7000002@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: monochrome monitor Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:52:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4920.2300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 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 > Daxbert wrote: > >>I have a monochrome monitor I'd like to plug > >>in to a pentium-based FBSD router. > > > > Does your system's bios support older video? Video selection is normally found on the "first" bios setup page. > > Thanks. I put back the VGA monitor card and > checked. On the BIOS set-up page it shows > the display type as "VGA/CGA" but stippled > out, as it also stipples out the amount of > memory. > > There are other video related memory settings > to be played with, but I'm guessing monochrome > is not an option. True?? > Well, I just remember from the "old" days being able to choose between VGA, CGA, MGA??. Where MGA usually referred to a Hercules or other monochome adapter. The stippling (sp?) may be due to the BIOS auto-detecting the video type. It may very well detect "Mono/MGA/something" when the monochome card is installed. So, does your host boot, just without video suport? Or does it sit there and beep at you as if there was no video card installed? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message