> yesterday I booted a quite frech -current kernel (2-3 days old) on my IPC
> (monochrome framebuffer). I noticed that as soon as the console switche to
> the built-in driver, the font used is much smaller than it used to be
> (usually it was the same fonts as the prom's driver). The console
> is fully functionnal, as does X, just that the screen and characters are half
> of their normal size.
> 
> Did someone else notice this ?

Not this.  Though my (8-bit cgthree) screen goes in white-on-black mode
if I use RASTERCONSOLE, even if I explicitly use the kernel options
to set foreground and background colours. Must be something the new
rasops code does.

-pk