Re: bttv and mga

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 07:07:46 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

>> Thanks for info. However, unfortunatelly, it does not seems to work.
>>
>> [adam@amd /]$ cat /proc/cmdline
>> auto BOOT_IMAGE=125 ro root=303 ip=off mdacon=5-8 console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0
>>
>> [adam@amd /]$ dmesg | grep -i mda
>> mdacon: MDA with 4K of memory detected.
>> Console: switching consoles 12-15 to MDA-2
>>
>> And indeed, switching consoles shows that it is from 12 not from 5.
>
> Sorry, "5,8" instead of "5-8"...

Hmmm.. that is strange, I put "5-8" in my lilo.conf and it works
fine. The message displays 12-15 on startup, but the desired
*behaviour* is achieved. Something mucky in the display routine?

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