From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 15:15:12 +1000

Re: Fwd: Re: kgicon, etc

James writes:

>  - Yes, I said remove the KGI driver.  I haven't downloaded CVS for a
>  while, but at last check the KGI driver was non-removable.

Download the latest CVS -- I've fixed many things (also broke some
drivers :( with the mmio thing -- but your ET6000 seems to do the right
thing though).

>  - But under vgafb, you can't restore the font!  Because the setfont
>  program doesn't work. :( It works under vesafb, but that can't coexist
>  with kgicon. Though 80x25T can be set via stm, the font is garbled.

Vgacon should be able to restore the font (assuming "rmmod kgicon"
restores the text mode properly, which it _still_ doesn't seem to do, 
I don't know why).

Also stm's "savetextmode" beforehand and "textmode" afterwards should
work (haven't tried).

>  I'm waiting until vgafb supports resizable consoles and font changes (will
>  it ever?)

Nope, vgafb is going away -- but vgacon *and* framebuffer support can
coexist.

Cheers,
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