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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Support MDA or Hercules card? Date: 24 Jun 1995 13:36:45 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3sgtcd$7dl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DAny8A.44L@hkpu01.hkp.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hsieh Shing Leung Arthur (BACS4 Class A student) <c1221442@comp.polyu.edu.hk> wrote: >Recently I tried to boot FreeBSD 2.0.5R with the updated boot.flp in my >386 system having a dual card. The system automatically reboots after >the line "Booting the kernel" is displayed when the display switch of >the motherboard is set to monochrome/Hercules. When I change the switch >to color graphics, the system can come up and reports CGA display but >the fonts are more ugly than the one in monochrome's mode. I wonder if >it's possible to use the monochrome mode of my dual card by recompiling >the kernel. Does the sc0 driver support this mode? If not, will >the old pc0 driver support that mode if it's still present in FreeBSD >kernel source tree? Reading your article twice, it's still not quite clear to me what you want. Nope, the pccons driver has been dropped from the source. You can chose between syscons and pcvt only. Anyway, neither syscons nor pcvt would try to tweak with your fonts unless you're downloading a new font, so i don't see why the fonts are ugly in one mode and not in the other. During the bootstrap, the drivers are using the font as pre-loaded by the BIOS during POST. If your card is really only supporting CGA as `color mode', well, there's no chance at all. -- 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. ;-)