Re: [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets

[Bodo Eggert]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jason Dravet wrote:
> >From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> >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.
> 
> Here is the result from the printk you requested:
> vgacon: mode=a3
> 
> I commented out lines 512 and 513 and the problem remains.

It seems I was wrong. I will have to think about it later. In the 
meantime, you might also want to use the no-scroll (IIRC) kernel 
parameter. (Disclaimer: I just started rading this file.)

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