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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!unidoct.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!plato!sn From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: ET4000 + Mono Card == 8 bit access using 386bsd? Date: 27 Feb 1993 00:13:01 GMT Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, CT, Germany Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1mmbmdINNh4s@unidoct.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de Keywords: VGA, Hercules, ET4000, XFree86, bus, ISA G'day fellows, I've got this question for those experts out there: My setup is the following: ISA 486 with 16bit ET4000 (old Diamond Speedstar + HighCol) and some No-Name 8 bit Hercules Card. Now, when I'm using MS-Doze, I know that the VGA switches to 8bit mode as soon as the Hercules Card is found on the system. I have a sweet little program (w/out source) that switches an ET4000 card to 16 or 8 bit bus width. I was wondering if my card uses the 16bit under 386bsd if a 8bit Mono Card is present. If so, does anyone know how to switch it to 16bit or is this already in 386bsd or XFree86 1.2 ? Thanks, -Sven Exitus ergo eram.