From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:06:47 +1000

Re: a FAQ... been away for a while...

Brian writes:

>  On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Andrew Apted wrote:
>  
>  > Just the standard linux mechanism for loading fonts should do the trick
>  > (I'm assuming there are standard utils for that -- can't remember), we
>  > just need to add some fbcon->kgi conversion code.
>  
>  There is a setfont in the vger tree I do believe.  Don't know if it uses
>  the old linux ioctl or something new, and I haven't tried it with vgacon.
>  It's vgafb and vesafb we (might) need to fix for rmmod -- you don't have 
>  kgi afterwards :).

Oops didn't think of that :-).  Since vgafb is going to be dropped soon,
people will just be using vgacon which has working PIO_FONT or whatever
ioctls, then we can just have a "remove" script a la :

    rmmod kgicon
    con2fbmap 0 0
    setfont .....

Cheers,
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