"problem" with mdacon
Hi Roland,
Quoted 2 lines · On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, [email protected] wrote:
sorry for contacting directly, but i was unsure about what list is best to ask questions for console specific stuff. maybe linux-fbdev or linuxconsole-dev ? the latter looks dead - there is nothing but spam in the recent archive...
I'd use linux-fbdev-devel and cc to lkml (already added).
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ok - my "problem" (not being a real one, but not sure if this is a bug)
if i do "modprobe mdacon" (without any options) the system console output freezes and takes no more keyboard input (no vt switching, too) this happens on any real hardware and also in vmware.
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looks weird to me - is this expected behaviour ?
i would have expected some "no such device or adress".
found this by chance by some module load/unload stresstesting and there are not many modules which break my system when loading/unloading - mdacon is one of the very few...
would be nice to get a comment about this.
I think it should just complain with `mdacon: MDA card not detected.', if no MDA card is present.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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