Bug 60143

Summary:	System startup does not honour VGA mode
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael McLagan <mmclagan>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description Michael McLagan 2002-02-20 20:55:19 UTC

Description of Problem:

When lilo.conf is modified to include 'vga=ext' and the system is rebooted, 
during the initialization it loads various keyboard and video fonts.  At the time
it reverts to 80x25 and does not restore the 80x50 mode set in the config
file.

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Expected Results:

VGA stays at 80x50

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-02-25 17:57:31 UTC

This is intentional; you can change the system font to something that works
better for a custom video mode by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n.