>> The word at 0x463 in the BIOS data area tells at which I/O address the
>> CRTC is sitting on. It's 0x3b4 for the monochrome adapter and EGA/VGA
>> in a monochrome mode, and 0x3d4 for CGA and EGA/VGA in a color mode.
>>
>> So, we should try to set the mode 3 when we find 0x3d4 and the mode 7
>
On 27-Jan-00 Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote:
>>There is a way to detect monochrome or color via one of the 0x3dX registers.
>>It's the register that tells you if the rest of the vido registers are at 0x3b
>>X
>>(mono) or 0x3cX (color). I can't remember which bit in which register that is
>>though. If s
>There is a way to detect monochrome or color via one of the 0x3dX registers.
>It's the register that tells you if the rest of the vido registers are at 0x3b
>X
>(mono) or 0x3cX (color). I can't remember which bit in which register that is
>though. If someone can find that out, then we can fix
Hi Folks,
(included Daniel since he had other concerns we discussed elsewhere)
I haven't submitted a PR yet, pending the outcome of the discussion;
since the right group of people seems to be talking about it, I'll
just get out of the way :-)
Cheers,
Jerry Hicks
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On 27-Jan-00 Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> This really does need to be fixed for 4.0-RELEASE. There exists the problem
> where certain BIOSes will whack a VGA card out of shape, preventing
> FreeBSD from recognizing the card. The proper solution is to whack it
> into shape ASAP, and ASAP h
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