From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 15:42:20 +1000

Re: kgicon partial success...

Edward S. Marshall writes:

>  Each character is rendered with a several pixel gap between each
>  horizontal line. When you wrap around the edge, you remain on the same
>  text line, but character rendering is done one pixel lower, until you
>  reach 80 characters, at which point you have a solid character (if you've
>  been typing the same character the whole time), and you skip to the next
>  text line.

Sounds like ModeX.  The VGA is hardwired to use linear only when 
virty == 200 (IIRC).  Note too that the VGA driver is buggy, it thinks
it can set 640x400x8 when standard VGA doesn't support that.  

Instead try these:

    insmod kgicon.o kgicon_bpp=1
or
    insmod kgicon.o kgicon_width=320 kgicon_height=200

(the con2fbmap isn't needed when using vgacon instead of vgafb).  The
above can also be done _after_ insmod using fbset:

    fbset -g 640 400 640 400 1
or
    fbset -g 320 200 320 200 8

Cheers,
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