Subject: Re: wscons fonts
To: Mark White <mark.white@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
From: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/11/2000 20:32:42
Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>
> Mark White wrote:
> > Ok - I played a bit with this, then subsequently tried
> > moving the font files into the boot filesystem (in
> > /etc/fonts) - and *still* I can't get it to use 8x8 fonts,
> > either at boot time or manually loading them afterwards. It
> > seems to load the fonts OK; it just seems that wscons isn't
> > using them (so I just see the top half of 8x16 fonts).
> >
> > Is there *anyone* out there who has got 80x50 consoles
> > working with 1.5?
>
> I've experience the same problem with my P-III/ATI 3D Rage machine (1.5
> and 20001014-current), but with Pentium/ET4000w32 machine (1.5),
> everything works fine as expected. I'm going to trace wscons code (should
> need kernel compile with some debug options enabled).
I've found that some newer graphics cards (my ATI 3D Rage, at least) are
not fully compatible with the VGA in charmap switching. With the same
machine (P-III), ATI VGA Wonder (28800), Trident VGA 8900C and ET4000W32/p
worked just fine. Obviously, it's not a problem of wscons nor the kernel
vga driver. Hmm... -_-aa
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>