On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, der Mouse wrote:

> You'll need to write a driver (though for memory-mapped stuff, you can
> in principle use /dev/mem - depending on your device's interface, this
> may be good enough).

dd if=/dev/io skip=0x378 count=1 says /dev/io not configured. This is 
the stock 1.6.1 kernel. So no luck there.

I am now looking into building against -li386 and use direct io 
functions from that library. That should work imho. I will report when 
it does.

thanks,
Peter