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James Miller wrote:
>
> I should observe that on other xvesa distros I've tried,
> setting vga= to anything other than the default value sort 
> of screwed up things up in console mode (the command line 
> where you type input was way off the bottom of the screen 
> where it couldn't be seen).  

I had exactly the same problem with Xvesa on two different 
systems.  It appears that Xvesa does not restore the console
screen to its orginial geometry -- it simply assumes 80x25.

So the decision to remove the kernel's capability for other
console geometries did two things:  it reduced the size of 
the kernel and it avoided the geometry problem with Xvesa.

Cheers,
Steven