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From: bernstei@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Simon Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: NetBSD with Mono-VGA
Date: 3 May 1993 09:38:47 GMT
Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa
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Howdy.  We have installed NetBSD (very) successfully on a 486SX-33. 
Unfortunately, our sponsor would not buy us a colour monitor to go with our
VGA card, so we got a mono VGA monitor instead.  Problem is, the OS (or the
BIOS ?) seems to think that we have a fully mono system: when UNIX boots,
things which come out in colour on a colour monitor come out underlined on
our console screen.  Anyone got any ideas ?  We have specified VGA in the
machine's BIOS set-up, and the motherboard supposedly detects a colour or
mono adapter automatically.

Any help much appreciated.

  - Simon

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