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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:33:29 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Super-User <root@asiainter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: mono video card not working in freebsd 3.0-980311-snap 
Message-ID:  <199804270433.NAA16901@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:42:44 %2B0800." <Pine.SOL.3.95.980427112750.29717A-100000@peach.asiainter.net> 
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.980427112750.29717A-100000@peach.asiainter.net> 

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>hi, i recently installed freebsd 3.0-980311-snap.  all the docs say
>freebsd supports monochrome video adapters (the really old stuff, with
>very little ram and limited graphics support, ttl monitor output).
>i plugged one in with an old mono monitor, works fine up until the kernel
>is loaded.  on vga, text turns to bright white after this - in mono,
>nothing more is displayed.  cursor just blinks and doesn't move.
>the system boots and runs fine, but no output to the screen.
>i recompiled the kernel with pcvt, booted from it, no change.
>is this a new bug in freebsd 3.0?
>(video card appears to have 4kbytes of ram, main chip number is tm6310)

Do you have the mono video card _alone_ in your machine?

If you have both a mono card and a VGA card, the console driver will
use the VGA.

Kazu

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