---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dove - railing doverailing@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [coreboot] Fonts at the Bios To: Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Stefan Reinauer < stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org> wrote:
On 6/4/11 3:22 PM, dove - railing wrote:
I am not a techie.
Would it be correct to say that fonts at the Bios level are decided by the Video card / VGA firmware?
The VGA BIOS loads the initial font.
Is there an opensource utility for them?
I found this, it's not open source though:
http://www.procon.com.au/HVVCBIOS.htm http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
Could not http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom utility be an opensource utility for Video card / VGA Bios?
Regards,
Meeku
Am 05.06.2011 12:49 schrieb dove - railing:
Could not http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom utility be an opensource utility for Video card / VGA Bios?
What are you trying to do?
Regards, Carl-Daniel
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
Am 05.06.2011 12:49 schrieb dove - railing:
Could not http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom utility be an opensource utility for Video card / VGA Bios?
What are you trying to do?
Change the Video card / VGA font. Could the Flashrom utility be used for this?
Regards,
Meeku
Am 08.06.2011 09:15 schrieb dove - railing:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Am 05.06.2011 12:49 schrieb dove - railing:
Could not http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom utility be an opensource utility for Video card / VGA Bios?
What are you trying to do?
Change the Video card / VGA font. Could the Flashrom utility be used for this?
You could try to change the Bochs VGA BIOS to support real hardware, but it will not be easy. http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/lxr/source/bios/VGABIOS-lgpl-README
If you just want to change the VGA font, you can use the setfont utility under Linux: http://linux.die.net/man/8/setfont
Regards, Carl-Daniel