Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:13:07 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2 Simple VGA/PCI questions (newbie) |
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Lee wrote: > For my own edification I am writing a simple VGA driver for my PCI video card.
Have you seen drivers/video/vga16fb?
> I have two questions that probably many could answer. I am using v2.4-test7. > > 1) request_region(VGA_IO_BASE, VGA_IO_SIZE, "vga") always fails. > How do I get the standard vga ports?
drivers/video/vgacon is probably stealing them.
> 2) Why aren't these ports listed in the resources? All of my resources > exist in high PCI memory?
Are you looking in the right place?
rum:~> cat /proc/ioports [...] 03c0-03df : vga+ [...] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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