From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:11:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080210121123.GC1828@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202598091.2418.3.camel@dv>
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:06 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > I think using system fonts is fine. Current update-grub has logic to detect
> > them, and enable them when present. It checks (via grub-probe) that GRUB will
> > be able to read them before doing so. Additionaly, the grub.cfg it generates
> > will instruct GRUB to fallback sanely to console when fonts aren't readable.
>
> You probably misunderstand. System fonts are located in BIOS. I think
> it might also be possible to read them back from a VGA compatible card.
Sorry, I wasn't very explicit. When I said system fonts I meant e.g. unicode.pff.
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-09 21:27 [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-02-09 22:06 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-09 23:01 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-10 11:06 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-02-10 12:11 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-02-10 11:05 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
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