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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 1995 23:14:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: console & mono-svga bug
Message-ID:  <199509072115.XAA09340@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199509070800.KAA02218@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> from "Thomas Graichen" at Sep 7, 95 10:00:30 am

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As Thomas Graichen wrote:
> 
> ... i think the problem is inside the
> console code - interesting is that it only appears with monitores detected as
> VGA-Mono - i also tried another VGA-monocrome monitor which was detected as
> VGA-Color (don't know why) and this one worked correctly - that's all - maybe
> someone may look into the code - if you have an idea send me the patches and
> i'll try if they work

VGA Mono is internally handled like MDA, i.e. the frame buffer is
located at a different address than VGA color.

It would be interesting to know (at least for me :) whether pcvt will also
fail.  I hope not.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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