From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 11:19:51 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 6008C37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA5243FBF for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:19:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18hE2L-00040N-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 11:19:45 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4406D0.6000800@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 14:19:44 -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: Dax Eckenberg Cc: Questions Subject: Re: monochrome monitor References: <3E43EACE.6050104@earthlink.net> <146201c2cecd$fb631f30$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <3E43F01D.7000002@earthlink.net> <147a01c2ced1$a03f87c0$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> <3E43F681.80206@earthlink.net> <14ad01c2ced4$df329d20$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> 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 Dax Eckenberg wrote: >>Dax Eckenberg wrote: >> >>>>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? > >>It booted and ran fine with only the mono card in there, >>just no video. With both cards now, the VGA works and >>still no mono. (Before today I only had the VGA in.) >> >>I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or >>maybe just this mono card. Thanks for your help so far >>and whatever other things you might suggest to look at, >>but it seems like a dead end at the moment. >> >>Walter > > > I would suggest that you change your boot loader to use the serial console as default. You'll still miss all of the BIOS POST > information which is being delivered to the non-working mono video, but at least you'll get everything after the initial boot blocks > are read. That's presuming you have another host / dumb terminal to connect to the serial port. I don't know how to configure a serial console, but that doesn't matter since I don't have one of those. Thanks anyway. I'll keep an eye out for one at the local used PC store, and for now just live with the present monitor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message