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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Syscons MDA/HGA bug + fix In-Reply-To: stever@csuohio.edu's message of Sun, 17 Oct 1993 07: 33:37 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct17171239@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <1993Oct17.073337.8151@news.csuohio.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 17:12:39 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1993Oct17.073337.8151@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes: The new version of Syscons distributed with FreeBSD EPSILON has very poor support for HGA/MDA display adaptors. I seem to recall that the old 1.x version of Syscons had better support than the current one. The problem was very simply that FAT_CURSOR was defined by default, which HGA displays don't seem to like very well. The current release of FreeBSD (soon to be 1.0 RELEASE) has this problem fixed. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.