Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:11:28 +0000 (GMT) |
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Jeff Garzik writes: > Dig through the video card docs, even older ISA video cards let you > disable I/O decoding on all but a few ports, and/or relocate the ports > it does use to other areas. Different with every video card, of course, > but most of them can do this to a greater or lesser extent.
Unfortunately, when you start thinking about x86 and running the BIOSes to (re-)initialise VGA cards back to text mode, they don't take it well if you do this sort of messing.
However, I believe that my problem is sorted by use of that function from pci-i386.c.
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