Re: Give MDA/VGA a try.

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> The mdacon driver detects a mda card only by checking if memory at
> 0xb0000 is accessible (for write and read). If your vga card does decode
> those addressess, I can think of the following options:
> * enable the commented out tests in mda_detect.

Short term solution. 

> * make the mda driver disable all pci vga cards, before probing for mda.
> * don't insmod mdacon.c on a system without a mda driver.
> * find a better way to detect an mda card.

Long term solution. Just have to find info on MDA. Anyone know where docs
are for MDA ?

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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