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.
> 
> It might be a good solution. It seems to me that test_mda_b is wrong. It
> does not restore the register value to what it was, which might be the
> reason. Try replacing the function with 

I'm going to give it a try now. Thanks. If this works really well we can
see if it will be applied to the standard kernel.

> Actually, I am not sure that there is such a test. the 6845 is very
> simple, and if a vga card emulates it it might emulate it completely.

Yeah. This might be one of those oplease only compile in if you really
have a MDA card thing. Thank for the info below.

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

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