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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Old Compaq386/20e and freebsd 2.1.0 - display problems Date: 4 Mar 1996 22:23:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4hfqgf$29q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3136d990.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pascal@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger) writes: > Booting the kernel with vt0 gives normal system start... But I don't > see any character on my screen, but I am able to login > remotely... (after adding a user using "adduser" without seeing what > I typed in... :-) ). The last line I can see on my screen is "total > 0x25ca6a entry point=0x100000". > I think the problem is due to the very old Video hardware of this > Compaq (onboard). > > What can be done (besides disabling the onboard video adapter and using > a newer video card) ? > > The onboard video claims to be "compatible with IBM VGA"... Interesting problem. Do you know anything more about this video hardware? It's apparently not what it claims to be... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)