Re: Patches for 2.1.40

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Wed, 28 May 1997 03:39:27 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 28 May 1997, Pawel S. Veselov wrote:

> > Bad idea; some colors won't show up on some black-and-white
> >VGA monitors. For example, if the monitor only reads from the
> >"green" pin, red messages won't show.
>
> If monitor reads from only one pin it is broken. And there is no problem to
> make color mixer on video output by hand.

But there are many VGA/mono monitors that do this. It made playing some
games really annoying as some objects would end up more or less invisible.

Maybe we need a new vger list...linux-kernel-not. :)

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