Re: 2.1.108, pre-2.1.109-1: Console problems.

Marek Habersack (grendel@vip.maestro.com.pl)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:24:39 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

> > With FB-device the screen is slowly filling with blank lines
> > (or black letters on black backround) but nothing happens
> > after this (I guess the Kernel went on strike before
> > mounting the filesystem).
>
> Please try either 2.1.109 or the patch sent to the list by Geert some
> hours ago. It contains lots of updates to vgacon code and fixes zillions
> of bugs.
I think I have missed this one - where could I find it? The 2.1.108ac2 and
2.1.109 won't properly handle a console with more than 80 columns of text, and
a 17" monitor in 80x25 is rather ridiculous ;-)))). Does Geert's patch fix
this as well?

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