From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 17: 5:52 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 6132137B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B5943F75 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:05:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walterk1@earthlink.net) Received: from user-0cal9lv.cable.mindspring.com ([24.170.166.191] helo=earthlink.net) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18hJRD-0000VN-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 17:05:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3E4457EA.8090307@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:05:46 -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: james_mapson@museum.rain.com 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> <20030207161935.A53882@ns.museum.rain.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 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.) James Long wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:10:09PM -0500, Walter wrote: > >>I'm guessing either the BIOS does not handle mono, or >>maybe just this mono card. > > Long, long, ago, motherboards had a jumper on them, with one > position for monochrome, and another position for everything > else. Either I missed it, or you didn't say what motherboard > you are using, but you might take a close look both at the > docs and the board itself to see if there is such a jumper on > yours. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message