From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 7 16:28:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19134 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from junior.thinkwell.com (junior.thinkwell.com [207.8.90.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19129 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aa@thinkwell.com) Received: from localhost (aa@localhost) by junior.thinkwell.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA09834; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:31:55 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 18:31:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Allan Alford X-Sender: aa@junior To: Andrew Boothman cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Old EGA Video Card & Monitor In-Reply-To: <35A29DDA.522704E5@boothman.easynet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > You could well be right. But I can't even get the system to enter it's > BIOS setup program, so I have no way to change this setting even if > that's the problem. Another -hardware list member suggested that the > BIOS setup program may use a VGA font, and that might prevent the setup > program being used on EGA hardware. There is a faint possibility of that, but I have set up fairly modern systems with Hercules mono cards/monitors when I was desparate. System fonts usually don't assume vga/ega/etc. You have a menu option on AMIBIOS to tell it what kind of graphics you have, and you couldn't well toggle through those options if you can't see the font in the first place. > What would happen if I booted the machine with no drives? i.e. With > nothing but a keyboard and video card/monitor? Would the machine enter > its BIOS setup program OK? These questions may be BIOS specific so my > BIOS is a AMIBIOS 1992 Version 1.00.03.BS0T This it totally doable. Are you getting any keyboard errors, btw? That might explain the lack of F1 functionality as well. - allan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message