[osol-discuss] Console font size

2008-08-29 Thread Alexander R. Eremin
Whether there is any way to change the font size in the console (or change VGA mode)? X it is healthy, but many prefer to work in the console. It would be quite good to specify to a kernel something like "vga=791" or to have possibility to run something like "setfont". -- This message posted fr

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-09 Thread Philip Brown
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:54:50PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > > > > > has a link to a tarball I hastily threw together of

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > > > has a link to a tarball I hastily threw together of the resulting code. > > PS: there are two points of interest in my code: > >

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-05 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:19:50PM +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Philip Brown wrote: > >http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > > > >fstobdf(1) should be able to convert to BDF fonts if one is running a >fontserver. Thank you! I've updated my web page accordingly. __

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Moinak Ghosh
Philip Brown wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: ... I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated bits, are now CDDL'd. If someone will confirm this (and email my regular address off-list to prod me) then perhaps I will remember to contribute my now 5-

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:47:27PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/drivers/vgatext.html > > has a link to a tarball I hastily threw together of the resulting code. PS: there are two points of interest in my code: 1. it theoretically allows use of other fonts, even sl

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-06-04 Thread Philip Brown
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > ... > I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated bits, are now CDDL'd. > If someone will confirm this (and email my regular address off-list to > prod me) > then perhaps I will remember to contribute my now 5-year-old hacked vg

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-28 Thread Riny Qian
Philip Brown wrote: bahahaha Im reviewing changes to vgatext since my hacks, and was amused to find the following: if (happyface_boot == 0) It is an undocumented experimental functionality for graphics boot. Please see Jan's blog about it at http://blogs.sun.com/setje (Faster seamless

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-28 Thread Riny Qian
Philip Brown wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:36:49PM +0800, Riny Qian wrote: sure, if you're willing to recompile the vgatext driver. ;) Then you can also change the console window size from 25x80 to others. This seems a good opensolaris project :-) I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
> bahahaha > > Im reviewing changes to vgatext since my hacks, and was amused to find the > following: > > if (happyface_boot == 0) Man I gotta know ... what's with that ?!?!? :-) boot - :-) -- Dennis Clarke ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-27 Thread Philip Brown
bahahaha Im reviewing changes to vgatext since my hacks, and was amused to find the following: if (happyface_boot == 0) ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-25 Thread Philip Brown
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:36:49PM +0800, Riny Qian wrote: > > sure, if you're willing to recompile the vgatext driver. ;) > > > > Then you can also change the console window size from 25x80 to others. > This seems a good opensolaris project :-) I'm too lazy to see if vgatext and ALL associated

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-21 Thread Riny Qian
Dennis Clarke wrote: I really do recall changing the font on my old Solaris 2.5.1 x86 machine. I may be wrong and I am thinking about NeWs or something even older. No you are not, I remember that too. thank you .. I was beginning to question my memory. looks like the Dennis DRAM still

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-21 Thread Riny Qian
Edward Pilatowicz wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:20:15AM -0700, Gregory Shaw wrote: Is it possible to change the opensolaris console font? I've got a font that I prefer to the standard VGA type fonts, and I'd like to use it on my console. Thanks! sure, if you're willing to recompile

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
> >>I really do recall changing the font on my old Solaris 2.5.1 x86 machine. >> I >>may be wrong and I am thinking about NeWs or something even older. > > > No you are not, I remember that too. thank you .. I was beginning to question my memory. looks like the Dennis DRAM still returns data o

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Casper . Dik
>I really do recall changing the font on my old Solaris 2.5.1 x86 machine. I >may be wrong and I am thinking about NeWs or something even older. No you are not, I remember that too. In fact, I just happened to have an old S7 root lying around which has /etc/init.d/keymap which loads specific f

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:20:15AM -0700, Gregory Shaw wrote: >> Is it possible to change the opensolaris console font? I've got a font >> that I prefer to the standard VGA type fonts, and I'd like to use it on my >> console. >> >> Thanks! >> > > sure, if you're willing to recompile the vgatext

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:20:15AM -0700, Gregory Shaw wrote: > Is it possible to change the opensolaris console font? I've got a font that > I prefer to the standard VGA type fonts, and I'd like to use it on my console. > > Thanks! > sure, if you're willing to recompile the vgatext driver. ;)

Re: [osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
Gregory Shaw wrote: Is it possible to change the opensolaris console font? I've got a font that I prefer to the standard VGA type fonts, and I'd like to use it on my console. No it is not. -- Darren J Moffat ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list ope

[osol-discuss] console font

2006-05-16 Thread Gregory Shaw
Is it possible to change the opensolaris console font? I've got a font that I prefer to the standard VGA type fonts, and I'd like to use it on my console. Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensol