Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!

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From: 'Dungeon' Dave
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:00

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Previously in <37709F62.C67637EC@maar.uit>, steven
<zoek.het@maar.uit> said:
>This morning I tried disabling the IRQ for my TNT2 on my SOYO 5EHM+.
>The result was Windows 95 booted in 16 colors.  This was not what I had
>hoped for ;-)
... but I bet it didn't clash IRQs with any other device!!!

'95 will boot with default 640x480x16colours (often looking like
safe mode when it doesn't have a display driver. And for '95 to
install a driver, it needs to find out what card it is. And the
operating system needs to communicate with the card, it needs
an IRQ.

However, other OSes that don't use resource-hungry graphical
displays don't really require these drivers, nor an IRQ.

I've disabled the IRQ in a BIOS, and powered up the machine. The
result was Linux booted in two colours (white text on black
background - horrible!!) on the console. It's all I needed!! :->
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From: 'Dungeon' Dave <Newsgroup@ghastly.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Plug'n'Play? I think not!
Date: 1999/06/24
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