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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
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- Subject: Re: mono and color
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- References: <1992Nov17.074507.11333@jabaru.cec.edu.au>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 02:51:45 GMT
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- Robert Chalmers (d10590@tanus.oz.au) wrote:
- : Can someone tell me what the secret is when switching ( upgrading ) from mono
- : to vga monitors. What else must be changed apart from /etc/ttys in order for
- : the new screen to work. I am currently running mono, Hercules mono card.
- : However, when I plug in a vga card and monitor, after the boot up messages,
- : nothing. The 'normal' mono text is lost and the poor old vga screen just sits
- : there. I hope this does not mean a re-installation? It would be nice if MWC
- : actually LISTED the tunable parameters in the kernal if that is what it takes.
-
- At the installation you sayed that you only want mono terminals, now color
- terminals does not work. The patchable kernel variables are VTMONO for monos
- and VTVGA for colors. Patch them to the number of consoles which you want
- to use. Don't patch your original kernel, make a copy to coh.test and patch
- that! BTW, take a look at /conf/gen/patches.
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