From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets
To: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>, adaplas@gmail.com,
       samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:24:02 +0100
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Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com> wrote:

> When I run stty rows 20 I get a screen of 80x20.  I can see the top 10 rows
> and the bottom 10 rows are invisible.

I asume your VGA indicates that it'll divide it's scanline counter by 2.
Please add a printk("vgacon: mode=%2.2x\n", mode) before line 512 and report
the value. A real fix will depend on this value. In the meantime, removing
the lines 512 and 513 from the original file should be a temporary fix.

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