Re: console on oskit-mach

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:29:26PM +0100, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get marcus' console to run on hurd with oskit mach. I get
> an illegal instruction exception at the first outb instruction. It seems
> the process does not have the correct I/O permissions to access the VGA
> card. Has anyone tried this before ? I'm running the latest version
> which is the debian packages at alpha.gnu.org.

You probably need a (newer) glibc library which is compiled against the
latest oskit-mach header files, so ioperm is included.

Mmh, you will of course also need the i83265 (or what the number was) driver
by Roland, and boot from a serial console.

Thanks,
Marcus

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