Description of Problem: During boot time, the initscripts call the program "setsysfont" which automatically loads an 8x16 font. This totally overrides the "vga=ext" or vga=whatver setting a user may have put in lilo.conf. The 80x50 text mode of the kernel requires an 8x8 or 8x9 font for correct operation. How Reproducible: 100% after new installation Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit lilo.conf, in global section add "vga=ext" then save and exit 2. Run lilo so the above change takes effect. 3. Reboot Actual Results: When the system comes up it starts out in 80x50 mode until the rc script calls setsysfont, which then changes the font to an 8x16 font which forces 80x25 mode upon you. Expected Results: Having the font left alone unmodified unless configured to use a different font. Having the video mode left in 80x50 mode, or whatever the kernel defaulted to either built in or specified in lilo.conf. Additional Information: As a temporary workaround, I have disabled setsysfont with: chmod a-x /sbin/setsysfont The correct behaviour then occurs of 80x50 mode working properly. I haven't looked at the scripts, but it is likely just some bad assumption there that needs to take into account other text mode sizes.
This isn't fixable. You're free to change the default font to something more that fits better on your preferred screen size. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26901 ***