Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:15:00 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: [2.1.116] vga=extended still half-way broken |
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Benjamin Redelings I wrote: > Hi, 2.1.116 works for me. (modular sound SB16, PCI NE2000, UP PPro 166) > > However, the new console stuff still appears to be broken. If I choose > vga=extended, I get > > Console: colour VGA+ 80x50 > ... > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25 > fb0: VGA frame buffer device, using 32K of video memory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The text is small enough that I could, theoretically get 50 lines on the > screen, but after the kernel messages start getting down to around line > 25, new next is written ABOVE previous text! This continues until new > text is written about the top o the screen. I think it is because the > scrolling code things the screen is 80x25.
Do not use vgafb, but vgacon. Vgafb supports 80x25 only and will be removed in the near future.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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