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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help for running XFree86 on Mono monitor
Date: 21 Aug 1995 13:20:12 +0200
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Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote:
>Has some one successfully run XFree86 on a monochrome monitor?
>I have some Hercules monochrome video card and hope they can be used for
>XFreeBSD.  I am not sure what kinds of Hercules cards they are. I know

Offhand, put this into your XF86Config file:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "mono"
    Subsection "Display"
    EndSubsection
EndSection
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)