[ On Monday, May 14, 2001 at 21:17:11 (+0200), Matthias Drochner wrote: ]
> Subject: wscons font handling changes
>
> What I've tested so far is the first part; I'm running a "vga"
> driver which takes its fonts from the "wsfont" pool. If
> the needed fonts are compiled into the kernel (options FONT_xxx,
> see dev/wsfont/files.wsfont), screen types like 80x50 and 80x40
> can be used without loading a font from userspace before.

Any idea if this will help with 80x50 on ATI adapters?  :-)

I am unable to use 80x50 on both an old ATI Mach-32 ISA card and on a
brand new Intel STL2 board with integrated "ATI Rage-IIC":

vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies Mach64 GV (rev. 0x7a)

also reported by X as:

(--) Mach64: PCI: Mach64 Rage IIC rev 122, Aperture @ 0xfc000000, Registers @ 0xfb120000, Block I/O @ 0x5000
(--) Mach64: Card type: PCI
(--) Mach64: Memory type: SDRAM (4)
(--) Mach64: Clock type: Internal
(--) Mach64: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 230.000 MHz
(**) Mach64: Mode "640x480": mode clock =  25.175
(**) Mach64: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  36.000
(**) Mach64: Mode "1024x768": mode clock =  44.900
(--) Mach64: Virtual resolution: 1024x768
(--) Mach64: Video RAM: 4096k
(--) Mach64: Using hardware cursor

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