Subject: RE: Using 'wsfontload'
To: 'ad@netbsd.org' <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2000 10:11:44
> "Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
wrote:
>> I am doing something like:
>> cd /usr/share/pcvt/fonts
>> wsfontload -h 8 vt220h.808
>>
>> Unfortunately:
>> 1) It doesn't restore textmode fonts .. and
>> 2) After about 6 calls - it says 'no space left on device'
>1) wsfontload(8) just makes fonts available to the display device -
it
> doesn't actually dictate that it should use them there and then.
In any
> case, last time I checked the vga(4) driver was rather fscked in
that
> department.
>2) You're adding fonts to the card's 'font table' and it's filling
up.
> There's a limited number of 'slots' available (8).
>> So .. what I am doing wrong, and how do I solve this?
> Nutn really, the vga(4) driver needs to be fixed and wsfontload(8)
made just
> a little bit more useful.
Thanks for you help, Andy. I have solved the immediate problem by
compiling a new kernel which supports pcvt - so I can use
'loadfont'.
But that will leave me with a problem under NetBSD 1.5, won't it!