Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:23:39 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hitman.jack@djo.com, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You tell me... Message-ID: <19970324082339.OG37907@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <TCPSMTP.17.3.23.-15.47.50.2861204436.10134905@djo.com>; from hitman.jack@djo.com on Mar 23, 1997 17:47:50 -0500
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As hitman.jack@djo.com wrote: > Well, i NOW have freebsd 3.0 and was installing it with boot.flp for 3.0 > as i should, and while i boted from the floppy it did its thing, and > when it got to the end of decompressing the kernel, instead of going > into the setup menu ( ive done it with 2.1.7 ) it does some weird stuff > with the monitor. I have a VGA monitor, and a super VGA card on my > cyrix686 with 8 megs of ram. Well, it just shows a bunch of colorful > vertical lines spaced about a quarter of an inch apart, like it might > be a conflict with the SVGA and only a VGA monitor, i dunno though. Søren, i've heard this from other people as well, somebody locally told me about a Hercules Stringray card where this happens. Usenet recommends pcvt as a workaround :-], do you have an idea what this might be, or even better, have a fix? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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