Subject: RE: Using 'wsfontload'
To: 'ad@netbsd.org' <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2000 10:11:44
	> "Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA]" <Graham.K.Jenkins@team.telstra.com>
wrote:

	>> I am doing something like:
	>>   cd /usr/share/pcvt/fonts
	>>   wsfontload -h 8 vt220h.808
	>> 
	>> Unfortunately:
	>> 1) It doesn't restore textmode fonts .. and
	>> 2) After about 6 calls - it says 'no space left on device'

	>1) wsfontload(8) just makes fonts available to the display device -
it
	>   doesn't actually dictate that it should use them there and then.
In any
	>   case, last time I checked the vga(4) driver was rather fscked in
that
	>   department.

	>2) You're adding fonts to the card's 'font table' and it's filling
up.
	>   There's a limited number of 'slots' available (8).

	>> So .. what I am doing wrong, and how do I solve this?

	> Nutn really, the vga(4) driver needs to be fixed and wsfontload(8)
made just
	> a little bit more useful.

	Thanks for you help, Andy.  I have solved the immediate problem by 
	compiling a new kernel which supports pcvt - so I can use
'loadfont'.
	But that will leave me with a problem under NetBSD 1.5, won't it!