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Subject: Re: Font switching for buggy cards (Re: Working 80x50 patch)
From: woods () weird ! com (Greg A ! Woods)
Date: 2001-05-31 20:30:43
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[ On Tuesday, December 19, 2000 at 01:06:12 (+0900), Bang Jun-Young wrote: ]
> Subject: Font switching for buggy cards (Re: Working 80x50 patch)
>
> I wrote:
> > Right. It's sometimes quite expensive for a slow machine to copy 16-32kB
> > of font data back and forth at a time, althouth such an operation occurs
> > only when switching between different text modes (80x25 -> 80x50, or
> > vice versa).
>
> I have written a new patch which does above. It works nicely with my
> machine, and I would appreciate it if anybody tries this one and tell me
> if he succeded or not.
I can now confirm that this patch works fine with the embedded ATI chip
on the Intel STL2 server board.
> Known problems:
>
> a) 512 character mode is broken. You won't be able to load such fonts.
for the moment I'm only interested in /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.808 :-)
> b) find how to detect buggy graphics cards.
Is this really an issue? Is the patch incompatible with other cards?
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