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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Syscons MDA/HGA bug + fix
In-Reply-To: stever@csuohio.edu's message of Sun, 17 Oct 1993 07: 33:37 GMT
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In article <1993Oct17.073337.8151@news.csuohio.edu> stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) writes:

	   The new version of Syscons distributed with FreeBSD EPSILON has
   very poor support for HGA/MDA display adaptors.  I seem to recall that
   the old 1.x version of Syscons had better support than the current one.

The problem was very simply that FAT_CURSOR was defined by default,
which HGA displays don't seem to like very well.  The current release
of FreeBSD (soon to be 1.0 RELEASE) has this problem fixed.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie

I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee.  I am an independent
contractor.