From: jonathan@nova.decio.nd.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) Subject: Re: Interesting colour problem on ATI Ultra (0.99-7A) Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 23:16:52 GMT
In article <1993Mar28.211515.10221@kf8nh.wariat.org> bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>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).
>
I simply edited the serial.c file /linux/kernel/chr_drv/serial.c and
commented out the detection of COM3 and COM4. However, I would like to
recommend this be added to the CONFIG section.