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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.corpcomm.net!news From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Simutaneous mono and vga under FreeBSD... Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:34:08 -0500 Organization: Corporate Communications Lines: 21 Sender: zach@freebsd.gaffaneys.com Message-ID: <87k9tjcdcv.fsf@freebsd.gaffaneys.com> References: <32388517.BA4@wsg.net> <3238632A.6516@www.play-hookey.com> <51eoiu$6ck@diemos.isdfa.sei-it.com> <323C1975.4FA7@www.play-hookey.com> <01bbaa1e$83d5fa80$070906c6@roanoke> <32483520.628A@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup16.gaffaneys.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: > The concept is indeed correct. I can only conclude that the combinations > I was using at the time, for whatever reason, would not support this > mode of operation. Whether it was the video card, the ROM BIOS, the > support chipset, or whatever, I can't say now. All I can report is that > all such attempts resulted in disaster on two displays as soon as I went > into a VGA graphics mode. So, I gave it up as hopeless (which it was at > the time). There is (was) a problem with using an 16-bit vga card with a mono card, because the way cards decide which addresses they own. The VGA would claim the B??? segment as it's own (and later, when it found out the ??? was not >=800, ignore the request sent to it). This is one of the ways that the mono and VGA cards conflicted, even though they didn't have to. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing only culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.