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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:31:04PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
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> > It makes a LOT of sense. The problem is that if we used the big font
> > on a small screen, we ended up with a 57 column screen. sysinst would
> > then do something in the install that would panic() the system. That
> > was no fun...
>=20
> Eh, that sounds ... weird. Definitely not a good reason to panic.

I agree.

It may have been that sysinst itself just fell over (no panic) but it had=
=20
the same net effect on my ability to install and run NetBSD. That machine=
=20
never had it on it.

> What I meant is - it should be configurable which font we use.
> And - wouldn't it make more sense to fall back to a smaller font ( ROM
> font or not ) only when we can't get at least 80 columns with whatever
> font the user wants? The current code would use the ROM font in 640x480
> even if the compiled-in font is small enough ( like 8x8 or so )

I think the original idea was that we had one font in the kernel and we=20
just used the console one so we didn't have to have a second and also as=20
we "knew" that it was too big. :-)

You how ever are putting more thought into this. :-) Before this was=20
always worked on just enough to get it out of the way. You're thinking=20
about fixing it. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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