Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

Jiri Slaby
2025-03-01T07:49:40Z

On 27. 02. 25, 14:05, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> I don't know why distros seem to not be using it anymore, maybe there's
>> something else?
>
> Jiri pointed to some problems yesterday from his point of view as a SuSE
> maintainer. Perhaps kmscon just needs bringing back into maintenance. I
> haven't actually looked at it yet.

It was a bug and it works again with kmscon's git snapshot. This commit
in particular:
https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon/commit/1de5e30ea4c8b9fc21623e5520b409c8e27a31d8

thanks,
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