Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:03:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Monochrome support |
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On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jeff Coy Jr. wrote:
> Is there currenty or is there going to be support for monochrome moniters > in Linux? I have a 2nd computer, but the only moniter available for it is > monochrome.
There is. One of my machines is running with a Hercules mono card.
> It works fine in DOS, but under Linux I get a blinking cursor 8 lines from > the bottom of the screen in the far leftmost column, rather than at the > point where I am typing. This cursor never moves. I've looked in video.S > and it doesn't look like there is any support for monochrome moniters, but > I'm hoping I'm just missing something.
video.S is the wrong place to be looking - that code only does the initial video setup at boot time. You want vga.c in drivers/char; for better or worse, VGA is mostly register-level compatible with the old 6845-based cards.
It sounds like there is some bug which stops your card working properly. What sort of card is it?
phil
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