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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!shrike.und.ac.za!bernstei From: bernstei@beastie.cs.und.ac.za (Simon Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: NetBSD with Mono-VGA Date: 3 May 1993 09:38:47 GMT Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1s2p77$jss@shrike.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: beastie.cs.und.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Howdy. We have installed NetBSD (very) successfully on a 486SX-33. Unfortunately, our sponsor would not buy us a colour monitor to go with our VGA card, so we got a mono VGA monitor instead. Problem is, the OS (or the BIOS ?) seems to think that we have a fully mono system: when UNIX boots, things which come out in colour on a colour monitor come out underlined on our console screen. Anyone got any ideas ? We have specified VGA in the machine's BIOS set-up, and the motherboard supposedly detects a colour or mono adapter automatically. Any help much appreciated. - Simon -- +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | Simon Bernstein | "Man is condemned to be free" (Sartre) | | University of Natal, Durban +--------------------------------------------+ | bernstei@beastie.cs.und.ac.za | Simonfish on IRC | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+