On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:47, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have > > > to be root ? > > > > Yes. Yes. > > > > "/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS > > "image" can be read from), but this device which is only accessible > > to root. > > But you cannot use this font to write to the screen directly ?
Probably not, no. ;) But well, I don't read "I wrote text output routines using putpixel and the ROM fonts." as "write to the screen directly". Rather more like "if I did't know which font to use, I'd use the BIOS font." Vinzent. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
