Re: console on oskit-mach

[Peter 'p2' De Schrijver]

Hi Marcus,

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:18:29PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok. Any idea were I can find one more recent than the debian packages on
alpha.gnu.org ?

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

Thanks,

p2.
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
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