From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 5 02:50:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10905 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 02:50:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10894 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 02:50:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA18802 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:50:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA04241 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:50:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id MAA25593 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:33:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604051033.MAA25593@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:33:59 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Narvi" at Apr 5, 96 12:36:42 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 As Narvi wrote: > There may be another catch - the motherboard (actually BIOS) requires > a card to be there and wont even think of booting if the card isn't there > - I can't however comment on percentage of such motherboards. There are > at least some behave so. I think only AMI BIOSes allow you to select ``Not installed'' for the video hardware. -- 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. ;-)