Bug 218825

Summary: Boot flag vga=extended doesn't work (setting doesn't stay)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bryan Christ <bryan.christ>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Bryan Christ 2006-12-07 18:25:01 UTC
Description of problem:

When the boot flag vga=extended is initially set, the console changes mode for a
brief moment and then reverts back to the standard 80x25 text mode.

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How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Modify the grub boot paramaters to add vga=extended and remove rhgb
2.  Boot image
3.
  
Actual results:

See description

Expected results:

Console permanently set to 80x50

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-12-07 18:29:30 UTC
vga=ext merely sets a different vga font. To have it be permanent, put a
different font in /etc/sysconfig/i18n for sysfont (i.e., LatArCyrHeb-08 to run
in 80x50).

Comment 2 Bryan Christ 2006-12-07 18:33:10 UTC
Thanks.  At least this is documented now.  Google turned up nothing on this.