On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> >What's wrong with the ancient console ioctl()s to change the font at runtine?
> >(damned, I can't remember the name of the command)
>
> I don't know enough about fbdev vs. the old PC VGA console
> to know whether those ioctl's are available for fbdev.
Yes, they should work, through the console->con_font_op() call.
> As far as I'm concerned, loading fonts by user level programs
> would be even better than by loading modules, although, I think that,
> when trying to move a facility from kernel to userland, people are a
> lot more willing to try that change if the kernel-based way is still
> available, but normally just compiled as modules that people gradually
> stop using.
Yes, and the user-land support is even older than the kernel support, except
for the one builtin font that fbdev requires (on VGA text the font is in the
VGA BIOS ROM).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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