Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/dev

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Bang Jun-Young wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:58:38PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >     Is there no way to probe for the ATI deficiency - try to load a
> >     high font character into a different slot and then read it back
> >     from the default slot?
>
> Read/write operations on the sequencer and font slots work
> fine. The problem appears when characters are displayed on the
> screen; no matter what fontsel register is set to, font in slot
> 0 is used. I have no idea how to probe this. :-(

        Is there anyway to (sanely) read what character has been displayed
        in a given position on screen?

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