[ On Tuesday, December 19, 2000 at 01:06:12 (+0900), Bang Jun-Young wrote: ]
> Subject: Font switching for buggy cards (Re: Working 80x50 patch)
>
> I wrote:
> > Right. It's sometimes quite expensive for a slow machine to copy 16-32kB
> > of font data back and forth at a time, althouth such an operation occurs
> > only when switching between different text modes (80x25 -> 80x50, or 
> > vice versa).
> 
> I have written a new patch which does above. It works nicely with my
> machine, and I would appreciate it if anybody tries this one and tell me 
> if he succeded or not. 

I can now confirm that this patch works fine with the embedded ATI chip
on the Intel STL2 server board.

> Known problems:
> 
> a) 512 character mode is broken. You won't be able to load such fonts.

for the moment I'm only interested in /usr/share/wscons/fonts/vt220l.808 :-)

> b) find how to detect buggy graphics cards. 

Is this really an issue?  Is the patch incompatible with other cards?

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