From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Mar 22 9:38:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2424A150AF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA00171; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:38:09 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36F67F9F.19E2E32@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:36:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time References: <199903221729.KAA20262@pluto.plutotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > > Yeah, sure. But PC architecture only has extra scan lines for > > characters 208 through 211 (or similar range, I don't quite recall). > > Using any others for the mouse pointer results in an ugly mouse > > pointer. This is actually an available option, as Yokota-san has > > mentioned, and is probably mentioned in the LINT. > > Is there a way to embed in the font an indication of which character > cells to use for the mouse pointer? If you make the information 'optional' > we would only need to update the fonts that have useful characters in > the default mouse pointer location. This seems like a more general > configuration strategy instead of hard coding the location in the kernel > for all fonts. It's also more irritating. Every font with the possible exception of DOS CPs use these characters, that I know of. The famous and widely used latin1 does. Whether the trade off is acceptable or not varies a lot. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Someone's trying to hack into our server." "Wow... How flattering!" "I know. There must be some mistake." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message