Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750767AbVKMW0u (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:26:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750772AbVKMW0u (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:26:50 -0500 Received: from mail-gw1.turkuamk.fi ([195.148.208.125]:55995 "EHLO mail-gw1.turkuamk.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbVKMW0t (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:26:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4377BD8A.9070404@kolumbus.fi> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:26:18 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Jason , Samuel Thibault , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets References: <58c2Z-8jG-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <4377BA19.2060600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4377BA19.2060600@gmail.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on marconi.hallinto.turkuamk.fi/TAMK(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 14.11.2005 00:26:35, Serialize by Router on notes.hallinto.turkuamk.fi/TAMK(Release 6.5.4FP1|June 19, 2005) at 14.11.2005 00:27:26, Serialize complete at 14.11.2005 00:27:26 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 31 Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >Bodo Eggert wrote: > > >>Antonino A. Daplas wrote: >> >> >> >>>+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c >>>+#define VGA_FONTWIDTH 8 /* VGA does not support fontwidths != 8 */ >>> >>> >>This is not true, VGA cards do support fontwidth=9, but the ninth column >> >> > >Yes. What it should mean is that vgacon does not support fontwidths != 8. > > > I think vgacon doesn't touch the 8/9 pixel setting, so the fonts are hw extended to 9 pixels by VGA in many modes. --Mika - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/