On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jérémie Koenig, le Fri 12 Mar 2010 19:54:31 +0100, a écrit : >> The vesa driver works on Linux, but gains access to the io ports >> through iopl(3), > > Ah, right, it does both... At first read I thought it was doing iopl() > only if ioperm fails().
I think you're right, but apparently ioperm fails at least in my setting (the manual page seems to indicate it can only be used for the first 0x400 ports on Linux). -- Jérémie Koenig <j...@jk.fr.eu.org> http://jk.fr.eu.org/