Subj : Old Laptop Memory
To   : Digital Man
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 10:39 pm

  Re: Old Laptop Memory
  By: Digital Man to Angus McLeod on Wed Jul 27 2005 13:33:00

 >  > 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 me
 > if your not under X, how are fonts event used?


  SETFONT(8)            International Support            SETFONT(8)

  NAME
       setfont - load EGA/VGA console screen font

  SYNOPSIS
       setfont [-O font+umap.orig] [-o font.orig] [-om cmap.orig]
       [-ou umap.orig] [-N] [font.new ...]  [-m cmap]  [-u  umap]
       [-C console] [-hH] [-v] [-V]

  DESCRIPTION
       The  setfont  command  reads a font from the file font.new
       and loads it into the  EGA/VGA  character  generator......



---
 þ Synchronet þ Cry "Softly" then hit hard at The ANJO BBS

.