I've posted a small fix to mdacon.c at the end of last year (while
Marcello was in vacation). It has'nt made it to the kernel yet, nor was
there any feedback. I've thought, thats the way like open source works...
So, here we go again (against 2.4.17; my MDA is detected, but not
initialized, see my last posting):
--- drivers/video/mdacon.c.orig Sun Dec 30 02:44:25 2001
+++ drivers/video/mdacon.c Sun Dec 30 21:36:50 2001
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
*
* Changelog:
* Paul G. (03/2001) Fix mdacon= boot prompt to use __setup().
+ * 20011230 Jan.Schubert@GMX.li - consider non-Hercules MDA compatible
*/
#include <linux/types.h>
@@ -291,6 +292,10 @@
break;
}
}
+ else { /* consider non-Hercules as Hercules-compatible */
+ mda_type = TYPE_HERC;
+ mda_type_name = "Hercules compatible (hopefully)";
+ }
return 1;
}
@@ -342,9 +347,8 @@
return NULL;
}
- if (mda_type != TYPE_MDA) {
- mda_initialize();
- }
+ /* at this point, we found an MDA */
+ mda_initialize();
/* cursor looks ugly during boot-up, so turn it off */
mda_set_cursor(mda_vram_len - 1);
-
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