Re: CVS updates/VGA mode setting

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:08PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> If you want to support only standard modes (text, cfb8, vgaplanes, 
> vga8planes), it is easy. But there is couple of more or less nonstandard
> modes too. 2 (1plane) or 4-color (2planes) modes, alphanumeric mode with
> character generator disabled (gives you `spectrum like' attribute + 8pixels).
> What to do with them? Let them fall through and report something similar
> for them?

The 1-line font (which you describe as spectrum-like) actually could be
quite useful for having a huge font, while still keeping minimum video
memory size.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs