By default most distros use the builtin bios text mode for console on intel architecture, to achieve what you need, you should use the framebuffer driver for that, what you need on most of distros is to add some kernel parameters in boot time, I use these ones: vga=0x314 video=vesa:ywrap
Thanks for the feedback Behdad. I had noticed indeed that the behavior
was correct on framebuffer consoles, but that it didn't apply to the documented
bahvior in text consoles.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't rely much on the user's switching to framebuffer,
so maybe the solution would simply be to add an optional fix in Akka to
paliate to this Linux' misbehavior...
It's not urgent though I guess.
Salaam,
Chahine