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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EGA Monitor Question Date: 3 May 1996 21:59:07 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4meh5r$1hn@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <eharley-1804961339060001@user44.lightside.com> <4l7fht$520@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <4l7fht$520@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >eharley@covina.lightside.com (eharley) writes: > >>Will FreeBSD run on an EGA monitor if all I want to use FreeBSD for is >>just shell and not xwindows? > >It's supposed to. > Back when these were all one big BSD for 'PC's, I used an EGA card and monitor. I have to assume they still work. The trick for me was getting an EGA card that wasn't a VGA card too. I tried an older card that was supposed to emulate everything from MGA to VGA, and set it up for EGA. It wouldn't work with 386BSD, primarily because it probed the card, asked it what it was best at, and tried to run VGA from there. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) 386bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean that there isn't someone that wants to do it...."