Re: 2.1.71 failes to believe my VGA is usable as console

[Pavel Machek]

> On Friday, 05 December 1997 at 15:38:53 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > con_is_present() returns false at first possibility, there's nothing
> > on the screen even if I put 1 minute delay between writew and
> > readw. Any ideas?
> 
> You happen to have VGA_CAN_DO_64KB defined at the top of
> drivers/char/vga.c? Around here it seems to conflict with the
> con_is_present() routine.

Thanx, I'm recompiling now.

How is possible that VGA_CAN_DO_64KB interferes with this one? Do you
understand that mechanism? Should be fixed, IMO.

								Pavel

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