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From: pascal@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de (Pascal Gienger)
Subject: Re: Old Compaq386/20e and freebsd 2.1.0 - display problems
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Date: 5 Mar 96 07:17:37 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: > 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...
The problem were the routines in the pcvt driver to detect if it is
a VGA mono or VGA color device and to distiniguish EGA from VGA. Simply
replaced these routines with a return(right value)... Now everytime a
VGA mono device is detected and it works... (VGA mono text screen has a
different start address than VGA color test modes). X however, won't
run... Next week I'll have a standard ET4000 card for this old thingy.
Things should be a little bit better then...
Pascal
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