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

Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.ow.nl)
Fri, 5 Dec 1997 20:04:01 +0100


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.

Cheers,
Sander

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