Re: VGA console

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:36:51PM +0200, marco@linuxrulez.nl wrote:
> I've tried the VGA console yesterday. I had some problems with the font.
> Half of the lines of the font is shown (even or uneven lines, I'm not sure
> which ones). The content is shown, switching virtual consoles also works.

Ok, try this change in console-client/.  I was a bit too optimistic about
VGA cards.  Everybody else around me already figured out that you had to set
read and write registers, even if you are not doing both.

2002-09-19  Marcus Brinkmann  <marcus@gnu.org>

        * vga-support.c (vga_read_write_font_buffer): New function.  It
        turns out that reading and writing needs the same register
        settings.
        (vga_write_font_buffer): Implement in terms of
        vga_read_write_font_buffer.
        (vga_read_font_buffer): Likewise.

Thanks,
Marcus

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