Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750784AbVKMXgM (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:36:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750787AbVKMXgM (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:36:12 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.200]:52215 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbVKMXgM (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:36:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D7cFIwOiiS17uu2D/ABv8AAP7qUaaGLhImLMap8IOjDxP2814KEIwmKfar1HtJ3sQARaLtLMMF/wtoIYJ8AL4mp4TPmgbLStI0LQqu1FcGA0QIvNUWS2yHpsqRwMrXpSuXCsoRoiIh3D67zQswWb0tDOspZoZqGHuWeUWNxVp6s= Message-ID: <4377CDD8.1000509@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:35:52 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mika_Penttil=E4?= 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> <4377BD8A.9070404@kolumbus.fi> In-Reply-To: <4377BD8A.9070404@kolumbus.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 34 Mika Penttil? wrote: > 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. > It's not a hardware limitation, but vgacon is hardcoded to accept fonts that are only 8 pixels wide. You can try it by doing a setfont. Tony - 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/