[hangs with wscons]
tv@pobox.com said:
> This happens with 1.4.1 GENERIC pulled right off of the ftp site,
> which I believe doesn't have DEFAULTSCREENS?... 

OK, then I'd recommend DDB to narrow it down.

> The "card" is not in actuality a PCI VGA card
> -- it has ISA VGA support and VMWare's own display protocol via "PCI bus".

Actually, _every_ PCI VGA card has ISA VGA support. The designers
sacrified the clean bus design to get PC compatibility.

> Now, does wscons try to probe the ISA card to see if it "does more" than a
> plain VGA card?

No, the only probing is for mono/color. Nothing more than
minimal VGA.

best regards
Matthias