From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Interesting colour problem on ATI Ultra (0.99-7A) Date: 28 Mar 1993 21:15:15 GMT
In article <1993Mar26.202019.7094@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Darren/Torin/Who ever...) writes:
>I have an interesting problem with linux 0.99.pl7A-30. I compiled the new
>kernel with some patches to the aha1740 and giving me more memory, my
>console turned yellow as soon as the console driver was loaded. It look
The serial driver is trying to attach com4. Unfortunately, the port that it
looks at for com4 is one of the 8514/A registers on the ATI, and the yellow
screen is the result. (The 8514/A registers override all the settings inside
Linux, since Linux accidentally diddled the hardware.)
Not sure how to fix it, since I'm still on pl4 and waiting for the next SLS
upgrade (there seems to be a chicken-and-egg problem with upgrading past pl4,
having to do with make, libc, and kernel upgrades that are interdependent, and
also kernel/login/getty interdependencies).
++Brandon
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