Re: Installing Red Hat with TRUE ASCII text
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 08/16/03
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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:46:55 +0000 (UTC)
alex@totallynerd.com (Alex) writes:
]Hi.
]I'm installing Red Hat 8.0 on a system with an older CGA video card
]and amber Hercules monitor, and I've been running into some huge
]issues.
]First, the installer, even in Text mode, didn't display properly. It
]used what looked like ANSI, but my monitor used the same color for
]background and forground. My work around was to move my VGA monitor
]and card to the system for install. Install went flawlessly. I
]didn't install any GUI apps or X.
]Next, I put the CGA card back in and rebooted. Hung when GRUB tried
]to start. Connected my VGA monitor and card back-up and remembered
]that GRUB launches a GUI screen to choose kernel. Quick editing of
]the grub.conf fixed this -- made it start in TEXT mode.
]Now, things are working okay when the CGA card and Hercules monitor
]are connected, but the curser is always blinking in the middle of the
]screen. This makes using Pine, Pico, and other apps almost impossible
]since I can't tell where I'm at. Even at login, curser is in middle
]of screen. Typed characters appear where they should, but you have no
]idea where the curser is actually at.
]One clue is when I login to console, I get the error: putfont:
]PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
]I didn't get this when the VGA monitor was connected. I just want
]plain ASCII, no ANSI, no color, nothing. How can I do this? Also,
]why doesn't Red Hat make it easier for folks with older systems to
]install RH? Linix's strong suit is that it works on older systems...
]and this system is more then enough power for what I need to do. Yet
]they've made it very difficult to get it even installed.
]Thanks for any suggestions -
]Alex.
]BTW, please don't reply with UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM. The hardware will
]work for what I need... but Red Hat seems to have the MS syndrome when
]it comes to older hardware.
Not redhat. This is in linux itself. I am not at all sure that there is
a CGA driver. I really would just go out and buy a $5 vga card for it.
Yes, it may be possible to find a cga driver. but the time and effort
are going to more than $5
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