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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Jason <dravet@hotmail.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 07:35:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4377CDD8.1000509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4377BD8A.9070404@kolumbus.fi>

Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> 
>> Bodo Eggert wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
>>>> +#define VGA_FONTWIDTH       8   /* VGA does not support fontwidths
>>>> != 8 */
>>>>     
>>> This is not true, VGA cards do support fontwidth=9, but the ninth column
>>>   
>>
>> Yes.  What it should mean is that vgacon does not support fontwidths
>> != 8.
>>
>>  
>>
> I think vgacon doesn't touch the 8/9 pixel setting, so  the fonts are hw
> extended to 9 pixels by VGA in many modes.
> 

It's not a hardware limitation, but vgacon is hardcoded to accept fonts that are
only 8 pixels wide.  You can try it by doing a setfont.

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-13 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <58c2Z-8jG-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-13 19:41 ` [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets Bodo Eggert
2005-11-13 22:11   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-13 22:26     ` Mika Penttilä
2005-11-13 23:35       ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]
2005-11-14  3:32         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-13 22:24   ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-16 17:58 Jason Dravet
2005-11-16 23:52 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-17  1:37   ` Jason Dravet
     [not found] <58DvZ-6en-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-11-14  9:24 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-11-14 15:27   ` Jason Dravet
2005-11-14 16:32     ` Bodo Eggert
2005-11-16  0:05     ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-16  1:50       ` Jason Dravet
2005-11-16  2:25         ` Samuel Thibault
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-14  3:46 Jason Dravet
2005-11-12 22:20 Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-13 10:23 ` Martin Mares
2005-11-13 11:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-13 14:33   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-11-13 22:25     ` Samuel Thibault
2005-11-13 23:37       ` Antonino A. Daplas

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