From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 11:29:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA18280 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:29:33 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA18264 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:29:12 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA19715; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:25:37 +0100 Message-Id: <199510091825.TAA19715@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Video Problem To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 19:25:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01HW8FEMILP4004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Oct 9, 95 10:54:52 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 743 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I'm having trouble with a messy screen in X, and the video card > tech people suggest excluding A000-C7FF as they can be excluded > in the DOS/Windows memory management line in the config.sys file. > > The installation is 2.0.5, generic kernel. Does this already > avoid writing to the A000-C7FF area, or is there something I could > add that would do this? What card are you talking about? What they said about excluding memory in the config.sys does not apply to FreeBSD. FreeBSD leaves the memory below 1MB alone (at least it doesn't interfere with it in such an unpleasant way as EMM386 would do). What does dmesg give? > > Thanks very much-- > > Annelise > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de