From: "Antonino A. Daplas" 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 asterisk 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. Note that this bug may be triggered if the user changes the screen height with stty, or using another font with different dimensions. A definitive fix will need to be provided by someone who knows and has the hardware. This patch also converted hard-coded constants to a named constant (VGACON_FONTWIDTH). Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~vgacon-workaround-for-resize-bug-in-some-chipsets drivers/video/console/vgacon.c --- devel/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c~vgacon-workaround-for-resize-bug-in-some-chipsets 2005-11-22 22:30:46.000000000 -0800 +++ devel-akpm/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c 2005-11-22 22:30:46.000000000 -0800 @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vga_lock); static int cursor_size_lastfrom; static int cursor_size_lastto; +static u32 vgacon_xres; +static u32 vgacon_yres; static struct vgastate state; #define BLANK 0x0020 @@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ static struct vgastate state; * appear. */ #undef TRIDENT_GLITCH - +#define VGA_FONTWIDTH 8 /* VGA does not support fontwidths != 8 */ /* * Interface used by the world */ @@ -325,6 +327,10 @@ static const char __init *vgacon_startup vga_scan_lines = vga_video_font_height * vga_video_num_lines; } + + vgacon_xres = ORIG_VIDEO_COLS * VGA_FONTWIDTH; + vgacon_yres = vga_scan_lines; + return display_desc; } @@ -513,6 +519,8 @@ static int vgacon_doresize(struct vc_dat if (max_scan & 0x80) scanlines <<= 1; + vgacon_xres = width * VGA_FONTWIDTH; + vgacon_yres = height * c->vc_font.height; outb_p(VGA_CRTC_MODE, vga_video_port_reg); mode = inb_p(vga_video_port_val); @@ -557,6 +565,10 @@ static int vgacon_doresize(struct vc_dat static int vgacon_switch(struct vc_data *c) { + int x = c->vc_cols * VGA_FONTWIDTH; + int y = c->vc_rows * c->vc_font.height; + int rows = ORIG_VIDEO_LINES * vga_default_font_height/ + c->vc_font.height; /* * We need to save screen size here as it's the only way * we can spot the screen has been resized and we need to @@ -572,10 +584,11 @@ static int vgacon_switch(struct vc_data scr_memcpyw((u16 *) c->vc_origin, (u16 *) c->vc_screenbuf, c->vc_screenbuf_size > vga_vram_size ? vga_vram_size : c->vc_screenbuf_size); - if (!(vga_video_num_columns % 2) && - vga_video_num_columns <= ORIG_VIDEO_COLS && - vga_video_num_lines <= (ORIG_VIDEO_LINES * - vga_default_font_height) / c->vc_font.height) + + if ((vgacon_xres != x || vgacon_yres != y) && + (!(vga_video_num_columns % 2) && + vga_video_num_columns <= ORIG_VIDEO_COLS && + vga_video_num_lines <= rows)) vgacon_doresize(c, c->vc_cols, c->vc_rows); } @@ -999,7 +1012,8 @@ static int vgacon_font_set(struct vc_dat if (vga_video_type < VIDEO_TYPE_EGAM) return -EINVAL; - if (font->width != 8 || (charcount != 256 && charcount != 512)) + if (font->width != VGA_FONTWIDTH || + (charcount != 256 && charcount != 512)) return -EINVAL; rc = vgacon_do_font_op(&state, font->data, 1, charcount == 512); @@ -1016,7 +1030,7 @@ static int vgacon_font_get(struct vc_dat if (vga_video_type < VIDEO_TYPE_EGAM) return -EINVAL; - font->width = 8; + font->width = VGA_FONTWIDTH; font->height = c->vc_font.height; font->charcount = vga_512_chars ? 512 : 256; if (!font->data) _