Re: std VGA text console funnies

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:16:13 +0200

> That helped quite a bit, actually. I still see some corruption, but not
> nearly as much as before.

Please try this patch in addition to enabling SLOW_VGA.

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Mr. Worf, scan that ship."  "Aye, Captain... 300 DPI?"




--- drivers/video/vgacon.c.mj	Mon Aug 10 14:14:26 1998
+++ drivers/video/vgacon.c	Mon Aug 10 14:15:50 1998
@@ -144,10 +144,14 @@
 	outw(v1, vga_video_port_reg);
 	outw(v2, vga_video_port_reg);
 #else
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	save_flags(flags); cli();
 	outb_p(reg, vga_video_port_reg);
 	outb_p(val >> 8, vga_video_port_val);
 	outb_p(reg+1, vga_video_port_reg);
 	outb_p(val & 0xff, vga_video_port_val);
+	restore_flags(flags);
 #endif
 }
 


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