Subj : Old Laptop Memory
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 01:33 pm

  Re: Old Laptop Memory
  By: Angus McLeod to Digital Man on Wed Jul 27 2005 03:03 pm

 >   Re: Old Laptop Memory
 >   By: Digital Man to ROB MCCART on Wed Jul 27 2005 10:13:00
 > 
 >  >  > Will Linux have the special laptop video,
 >  >  > sound and font drivers for a 14 year old machine ?
 >  >
 >  > Video and sound, most likely. Font drivers?!? :-)
 > 
 > I dunno what a font *driver* is, but if you use 'setfont' on Slackware
 > (and presumably other distros as well) you can load console screen fonts.

And are these console screen fonts loaded into the VGA adapter or what? I mean,
if your not under X, how are fonts event used?

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