From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 09:53:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA18336 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:53:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.tcs.com (tcsi.com [137.134.47.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA18330; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from draco.tcs.com (draco.tcs.com [137.134.40.2]) by gateway.tcs.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA04532; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cozumel.tcs.com (cozumel.tcs.com [137.134.104.12]) by draco.tcs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12783; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:52:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Douglas Ambrisko Received: (ambrisko@localhost) by cozumel.tcs.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) id JAA11627; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:52:47 -0700 Message-Id: <199608291652.JAA11627@cozumel.tcs.com> Subject: Re: Specs on a Hitachi CM2085me monitor anybody ?? To: durham@tcsi.com (Jim Durham) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 09:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jim Durham" at Aug 28, 96 11:17:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jim Durham writes: | | Any suggestions on where documentation on BIOS video modes may | be lurking on the net? vgadoc is useful, I recall it is in the simtel archives. It contains programing info for a lot of cards. | Of course, the absolute topper would be to hack the BIOS rom so that | it natively boots to something your monitor can handle! ;-) . Well, I hacked booteasy to set my card so my wife can see F1 for DOS F2 for FreeBSD. The problem I ran into with FreeBSD is that it would sort-of work okay for the boot loaded except for printing text in blue(?). and then when the kernel started the text was not visible. I poked around in syscon but never got anything reasonable working. Doug A.