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Hello! > Reported from Redhat Bugzilla Bug 170450> > "I updated to the development kernel and now during boot only the top of the > text is visable. For example the monitor screen the is the lines and I can > only see text in the asterik area.> ---------------------> | **************** |> | * * |> | * * |> | **************** |> | | > | | > | |> ---------------------> > I have a Silicon Graphics 1600sw LCD panel with a Number Nine Revolution 4 > video card."> > This bug seems to be a glitch in the VGA core of this chipset. Resizing > the screen triggers the mentioned bug.> > The workaround is to make vgacon avoid calling vgacon_doresize() if the > display parameters did not change. It also has a nice side effect of faster > console switches, but that will be barely noticeable. This patch really deserves a comment in the code that such a broken hardware exists. Also, I don't see much reasons for introducing VGA_FONTWIDTH, it seems to only complicate the code. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat and wrong. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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