Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:24:50 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] to erase scrollbuffer on ESCc (was: A console_ioctl to erase the scrollbackbuffer) |
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Marko Schulz wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 12:35:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > So try to install vga16fb. It is also framebuffer. (It should work but > > I never tried it.) > > Doesn't seem to work here. I get a "vga16fb: unable to reserve VGA > memory, exiting" while booting.
Can you try the attached patch?
Regards,
Jeff
-- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein--- linux.ac/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Wed Sep 22 09:00:01 1999 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c Wed Sep 22 10:48:00 1999 @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static struct resource ram_resources[] = { { "System RAM", 0x000000, 0x09ffff, IORESOURCE_BUSY }, { "System RAM", 0x100000, 0x100000, IORESOURCE_BUSY }, - { "Video RAM area", 0x0a0000, 0x0bffff, IORESOURCE_BUSY }, + { "Video RAM area", 0x0a0000, 0x0bffff }, { "Kernel code", 0x100000, 0 }, { "Kernel data", 0, 0 } }; @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ #define MAXROMS 6 static struct resource rom_resources[MAXROMS] = { { "System ROM", 0xF0000, 0xFFFFF, IORESOURCE_BUSY }, - { "Video ROM", 0xc0000, 0xc7fff, IORESOURCE_BUSY } + { "Video ROM", 0xc0000, 0xc7fff } }; #define romsignature(x) (*(unsigned short *)(x) == 0xaa55) | |