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

["Jason Dravet" <dravet@hotmail.com>]

> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
> To: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>
> CC: 7eggert@gmx.de, adaplas@gmail.com, torvalds@osdl.org, 
> akpm@osdl.org,davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon: Workaround for resize bug in some chipsets
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:05:49 +0100
>
> Hi,
>
> Jason Dravet, le Mon 14 Nov 2005 09:27:51 -0600, a écrit :
> > >Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> When I run stty rows 20 I get a screen of 80x20.  I can see the top 
> 10
> > >rows
> > >> and the bottom 10 rows are invisible.
> > >
> > >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.
>
> Really strange...
>
> At that same line, could you try adding this:
>
> printk("vgacon: y=%d fonth=%d deffh=%d vidfh=%d scanl=%d\n", height, 
> c->vc_font.height, vga_default_font_height, vga_video_font_height, 
> vga_scan_lines);
> outb_p(VGA_CRTC_OVERFLOW, vga_video_port_reg);
> printk("vgacon: overflow %02x\n",inb_p(vga_video_port_val));
> outb_p(VGA_CRTC_V_SYNC_END, vga_video_port_reg);
> printk("vgacon: vsync_end %02x\n",inb_p(vga_video_port_val));
> outb_p(VGA_CRTC_V_DISP_END, vga_video_port_reg);
> printk("vgacon: vdisp_end %02x\n",inb_p(vga_video_port_val));
>
> Regards,
> Samuel

Here are the results:
y=25   fonth=16   deffh=16   vidfh=16   scanl=400
overflow=ff
vsync_end=8f
vdisp_end=1f

Thanks,
Jason


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