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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:50:54 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: VGA card (mis)behavior 
Message-ID:  <200001272350.IAA11592@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:36:45 EST." <200001272236.RAA54160@server.baldwin.cx> 
References:  <200001272236.RAA54160@server.baldwin.cx> 

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>There is a way to detect monochrome or color via one of the 0x3dX registers. 
>It's the register that tells you if the rest of the vido registers are at 0x3b
>X
>(mono) or 0x3cX (color).  I can't remember which bit in which register that is
>though.  If someone can find that out, then we can fix this properly.

The word at 0x463 in the BIOS data area tells at which I/O address the
CRTC is sitting on.  It's 0x3b4 for the monochrome adapter and EGA/VGA
in a monochrome mode, and 0x3d4 for CGA and EGA/VGA in a color mode.

So, we should try to set the mode 3 when we find 0x3d4 and the mode 7
for 0x3b4.

Kazu


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