mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: g.anzolin@inwind.it (Gianluca Anzolin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:50:33 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E140Pc3-0003AI-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001127150543.A3083@dracula.home.intranet> from "Gianluca Anzolin" at Nov 27, 2000 03:05:43 PM

>         inb     $0x92, %al                      #
>         orb     $02, %al                        # "fast	A20" version
>         outb    %al, $0x92			# some chips have only this
> 
> Then my system worked without problems.
> 
> Now what I ask is:
> 1) Why did they disable my videocard ?

Because your machine is not properly PC compatible

> 2) Whate are they supposed to do?

They switch on the A20 line


-
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/

  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-27 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-26 21:28 Gianluca Anzolin
2000-11-26 23:53 ` Jorge Nerin
2000-11-27 14:05 ` Gianluca Anzolin
2000-11-27 14:50   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-11-27 18:49     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-27 19:08       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 19:27         ` Petr Vandrovec
2000-11-28  1:36           ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-28  1:40             ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-28  3:14               ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-28  3:23                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 19:52         ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-27 19:59           ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-28  0:16         ` Gianluca Anzolin
     [not found]           ` <3A22EF3D.B97A0965@transmeta.com>
2000-11-28  9:33             ` Gianluca Anzolin
2000-11-28 18:14               ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-28  4:09 Dunlap, Randy

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E140Pc3-0003AI-00@the-village.bc.nu \
    --to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=g.anzolin@inwind.it \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®