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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!news.delphi.com!BIX.com!arog From: arog@BIX.com (arog on BIX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hercules Video Adapter Date: 29 Feb 96 10:22:44 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation Lines: 36 Message-ID: <arog.825589364@BIX.com> References: <313541E6.5454@cs.sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bix.com Rob, XFree86 supports the Hercules MonoChrome adaptor as part of (as I recall) the Mono video driver distribution. If this is one of their color cards, then look at it's docs to see what, if any, other cards it emulates and select that as as the driver that you 'ln -s X' in the install of X-Free. Alan arog@BIX.com Rob Ballantyne <ballanty@cs.sfu.ca> writes: >So, I looked in the FAQs and the WEB pages and I couldn't >find an answer to my question (BTW the answer for Linux is on >the WEB). > Q: Can I run a FreeBSD system with a Hercules Video Apapter? > I know this kind of sounds silly but what I have is another >machine I intend to 'X' to if I can get a basic system up and >running with a Hercules Adapter. > Thanks for any info!! >Rob >---- >Rob Ballantyne >Ops Mgr >Center for System Science >Simon Fraser University >ballanty@cs.sfu.ca