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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mainelink.net!usenet From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@mainelink.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EGA Monitor Question Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 09:44:52 -0400 Organization: The Computer Guy Lines: 32 Message-ID: <318B5F54.2C33@mainelink.net> References: <eharley-1804961339060001@user44.lightside.com> <4l7fht$520@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4meh5r$1hn@cynjut.neonramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: buxton-7.mainelink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win16; I) Dave Burgess wrote: > > In article <4l7fht$520@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: > >eharley@covina.lightside.com (eharley) writes: > > > >>Will FreeBSD run on an EGA monitor if all I want to use FreeBSD for is > >>just shell and not xwindows? > > > >It's supposed to. > > > > Back when these were all one big BSD for 'PC's, I used an EGA card and > monitor. I have to assume they still work. > > The trick for me was getting an EGA card that wasn't a VGA card too. I > tried an older card that was supposed to emulate everything from MGA to > VGA, and set it up for EGA. It wouldn't work with 386BSD, primarily > because it probed the card, asked it what it was best at, and tried to > run VGA from there. Yup, FreeBSD runs fine on a generic EGA.. Even runs on a 4meg 386SX-25! Albiet slow! But it runs!! 7 hours to compile a kernel! I'll never do that again! Sure glad I got it right the first time! BTW this system i'm talking about was setup to debug a namserver problem I 'WAS' having.. Thanks to a very helpfull person and a barage of late night emails last night the problem was solved.. :) Yup it was my error in configuration.. I geuss one of these days I'll graduate from the newbe school! TTYL Gary