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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> I thought BL2 was supposed to work with yesterday's monitors.  

Are you suggesting it doesn't?

> Ours are mostly circa 1991.

Perhaps BL1 would be more appropriate.

> we get a very dim and squashed picture at 1024 but one of 
> them is okay at 800

I wouldn't bother trying 1024x768 on a monitor that old.  
The monitor on my computer was manufactured in 1992 and 
it can't do anything higher than 800x600 (even in DOS).

Cheers,
Steven






> People do not put the manual out at the curb with the monitor.

Really?

> In /dev/ there is now an fb0 (and many other fb's).  What does
> devfs=nomount do or mean?
> 
> It will be a while before we are at the stage of testing this on the next 
> computer.  The parallel port appears to be dead so it is harder to 
> transfer files.  The other parallel port seems okay.  (An extra came with 
> the Hercules card - maybe it has been jumpered off?)
> 
>   
> > Cheers,
> > Steven
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