Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture

[Robert Millan]

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.

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Robert Millan

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