[coreboot] Fonts at the Bios

Stefan Reinauer stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org
Sun Jun 5 03:30:57 CEST 2011


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

then there is setfont for linux in the kbd package that allows you 
changing the VGA text mode font during OS run time.

See the following link for more information:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html




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