From: Andrew Apted <ajapted@netspace.net.au>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:25:10 +1000

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

Brian writes:

>  > But "normal multihead" of one person using two videocards/monitors is
>  > supported by fbcon (albeit not perfectly yet).  Very handy, since I am
>  > using my MDA monitor to insmod/rmmod the kgicon module and not have to
>  > reboot when it trashes the VGA screen (which rmmod always does right
>  > now :-().
>  
>  If you add the following function to fbcon-kgi and call it from
>  cleanup_module() you can get your textmode back:
>  
>  /* This and _init dont use fbcon standard prototypes!! FIXME */
>  void kgifb_deinit(void) {
>  
>          kgim_reset(&kgifb_display);
>          kgim_accel_done(&kgifb_display);
>          kgim_clock_done(&kgifb_display);
>          kgim_ramdac_done(&kgifb_display);
>          kgim_monitor_done(&kgifb_display);
>          kgim_chipset_done(&kgifb_display);
>  
>  }

Righteo (looks a lot better than what I did).

>  But that still leaves one problem: Fonts.  The vga mode corrupts 
>  the font tables.  We need vgafb/vesafb to support font loading
>  if they don't already, and util/ should have a fbcon style setfont
>  and an rmmod script.

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.

Cheers,
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