OK, I'm mad, but... I have an old HP Vectra with onboard VGA. I've disabled this.
I have a Paradise PEGA2 EGA card configured for an 80 column monochrome monitor. I also have an original IBM CGA monitor. The idea is to get RH Linux to boot and display on the aged CGA monitor. All goes well until it comes to time to display the prompt, at which point it tries to clear the screen and the display breaks up. I think it's trying to do VGA things to an EGA. Anyone know how to tell it that it definitey has an EGA or CGA (the PEGA2 was very CGA compatible) and not muck around with it too much? I have also tried the same thing with an OTI067 VEGA with 9-pin output, but I think it's trying to talk monochrome out that port. As to why I'm doing this, the local fire brigade (to which I belong) needs a screen on the Linux calltaker box, and all we can find is a CGA monitor... Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver Family \ / X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://olliver.family.gen.nz X / \ - NO MSWord docs in e-mail Public PGP key available there / \
