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From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis)
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Brian Campbell wrote:

> Are there any plans for the pcvt driver to include the same support
> for loadable screen savers as syscons?

Yes, plans do exist. For quite some time now; but the time available for
hacking seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

> I was also wondering why pcvt restricted its [VGA] font support to 8,
> 10, 14 and 16 scanline fonts.

I don't know ;-)

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis                hm@kts.org                    Hamburg, Europe
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