Willow Schlanger wrote:
>
> Are the fonts in a typical VGA BIOS copyrighted? Does anyone know of any
> public domain or GPL or freeware fonts that we can use? Really just 8x16
> or close in size is needed (or 8x8, 8x14, etc.) because I can adjust
> them if needed. Does Mandrake/Linux ship with any such font (either
> bitmap, or can be converted to bitmap). Where should I send my VGA BIOS
> source code? Can I use the 'cvs' command to do that? Or to an ftp? Or
> should I e-mail to someone????
>
> The only thing that is not distributable are the fonts, so I'm waiting
> for a reply on that.
Maybe check out 'man consolechars' and the /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts
directory. This command loads the character generators with various
fonts for the console. Must be able to get the data you need somehow
out of this stuff.
-Kevin
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