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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: KERNEL BUG: console not working in linux
Date: 28 Nov 2000 10:14:11 -0800
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Followup to:  <20001128103352.A377@fourier.home.intranet>
By author:    Gianluca Anzolin <g.anzolin@inwind.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> |No, the problem is the utterly braindamaged way the motherboard chose to
> |enable/disable it (*especially* if it's PCI... sheech, port 92h isn't
> |exactly something new in that timeframe.)
> |
> |What PC/motherboard is this, anyway?
> 
> It's an olivetti, but maybe they bought the mainboard elsewhere I don't
> know. Anyway you can find the lspci -xvv in
> http://www.gest.unipd.it/~iig0573/lspci.txt
> 

It's not "an Olivetti", it has a model number and God Knows What.
>From the looks of it they are using a 440FX chipset, which definitely
does not have this problem inherently (and almost certainly handles
port 92h correctly), so whomever wired up this motherboard was even
more of an idiot that I first thought.

If I were you I would take it back and demand a refund.  It isn't a PC
you have there.

	-hpa

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