Bodo Eggert wrote:I think vgacon doesn't touch the 8/9 pixel setting, so the fonts are hw extended to 9 pixels by VGA in many modes.
Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.cThis is not true, VGA cards do support fontwidth=9, but the ninth column
+#define VGA_FONTWIDTH 8 /* VGA does not support fontwidths != 8 */
Yes. What it should mean is that vgacon does not support fontwidths != 8.