From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:06:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AEDAAD.7040509@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202598091.2418.3.camel@dv>
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.
This is what I was pointing to. But there are most likely systems where
this font information is stored elsewhere. And actually VGA font sizes
are usually too small for larger displays. (and so is ours)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-10 11:06 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 [this message]
2008-02-10 12:11 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 11:05 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
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