-----Original Message----- From: Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>OK, I'm mad, but... Don't get mad, get even.... >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? Try the system BIOS, it may have a monochrome / EGA-VGA setting. Additionally, you say that you have the EGA card set for 80 column monochrome - this won't work properly with a CGA monitor. Can you set the card to CGA? monochrome pinouts 1 ground 2 ground 3 not used 4 not used 5 not used 6 +intensity 7 +video 8 +horizontal 9 +vertical CGA pinouts 1 ground 2 ground 3 red 4 green 5 blue 6 +intensity 7 reserved 8 +horizontal 9 + vertical If you plug a CGA monitor in to a monochrome card it doesn't get any red-green-blue signals. Wayne
