Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 19:07:09 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Screen/font related questions... Message-ID: <19971126190709.50923@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971126003049.11225A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 12:40:53AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971126003049.11225A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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As Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Could somebody explain me in a few words what screenmaps are for? I'd read > the manpage but it's nonexistent... When should/can I use them? You might wanna use them when you can't load a font, but yet have a desire to display something different than the default IBM437 codeset. This eg. applies to Hercules cards. If you can load a font, that's preferable since just remapping doesn't make you all the desired characters available. Fixing your other problem in a more elegant way is IMHO impossible with the current way syscons is handling fonts (which restricts the number of simultaneously available characters to 256). pcvt addresses this problem by using 512 character cells, at the expense of having only 8 colors available. (It's also using screen mapping all the time so ISO 8859-1 or its closest approximation in IBM437 is the default.) I remember Søren mentioning the idea to use softfonts and a display running in graphics mode as another way out. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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