Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 08:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/5899: VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 sets 80x50 but uses wrong font (8x14 instead of 8x8?) Message-ID: <199803021620.IAA02961@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5899; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: xcene@c2i.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: bin/5899: VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 sets 80x50 but uses wrong font (8x14
instead of 8x8?)
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 01:18:34 +0900
>>Number: 5899
>>Category: bin
>>Synopsis: VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 sets 80x50 but uses wrong font (8x14 ins
>tead of 8x8?)
[snip]
>>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE
>>Environment:
>whoa... i don't have access to my box right now, but it's
>a FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE compiled 26th of Feb '98 with all the CVSUpd's
>available.
>>Description:
>The VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 fails to set a 80x50 textmode properly.
>Apparently it uses the 8x14 font instead of the 8x8 font, because
> 1: the characters are 'cut in half'; only the upper half is shown
> 2: changing the font with VIDCONTROL -F 8x14 [somefont] alters
> the display, while changing the 8x8 font does not.
>
>I've tried loading every possible font for every possible mode,
>but cannot get any proper 8x8 font displayed in VGA_80x50
>(or VGA_80x60 either).
Are you sure that you didn't load wrong font? We should load a font
file as shown below.
vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x8.fnt
~~~ ~~~
Note that vidcontrol does NOT check if the given font file has the
given size. It is just possible to do, by accident,
vidcontrol -f 8x8 iso-8x14.fnt
~~~ ~~~~
Anyway, syscons.c in the 2.2-STABLE branch was updated on 28 Feb. The
update includes some fix for font handling. Please try that version
and see if you still have the same problem with it.
Kazu
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