Re: Give MDA/VGA a try.

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

> > 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.
> 
> The results I have with this (changing test_mda_b and uncommenting the 
> rextra tests):
> with a noname mda card in the system - still recognised.
> only SiS 6326 (no mda) - not recognised both with extra tests and without.
> only Banshee (no mda) mdacon finds an MDA card without the extra tests,
> but does not find without it.
> 
> So it does seem to help

It helped here too :-) Lets post that patch to the kernel mailing list for
people to test out.

> > Yeah. This might be one of those oplease only compile in if you really
> > have a MDA card thing. Thank for the info below.
> 
> It is better to have a boot command line option, I think. 

Lets wait to see more resulst with your patch. This patch might work with
all VGA cards.  

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

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