[Bug 30631] Text mode virtual terminals in normal monitor remain widescreen

[mmezo]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
Virtual terminals in normal monitor remain widescreen and content is
lost.

I just tried Dapper Flight 3 (AMD64) on a normal (4:3) monitor.

- The splash screen and installation were widescreen from the beginning (with black stripes on the top and bottom side of the screen), but it did work OK, as it the installer showed completely in the visible area.
- X displays normal filling the whole screen
- But text mode virtual terminals remain displayed as widescreen with two black stripes on the top and bottom of the screen making impossible to see what your are typing, because the "logical area" stretches to the bottom of the monitor.

For example you can type (blindly) #echo Hello World, and you have to
hit return about three times to see what you wrote and the result.

If X doesn't start at all (because of some problem with hardware or
because it is not told to) the problem is the same.

Hardware:
AMD64 Opteron (165)
nVidia nForce 6150 based motherboard (with integrated Video)
1Gb RAM
(I guess the rest doesn't matter too much).

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Text mode virtual terminals in normal monitor remain widescreen
https://launchpad.net/bugs/30631