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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:35:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Teach vidcontrol(1) and vt(4) to restore default font
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.1.10.1409132034170.21571@multics.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409131401370.75482@m.saper.info>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1409131401370.75482@m.saper.info>

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On Sat, 13 Sep 2014, Marcin Cieslak wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I tried loading gallant.fnt which I did not
> like and I was wondering how to come back to
> the nice default font.
>
> There does not seem to be the way to do this,
> so please find below a simple patch to add
> this functionality.
>
> It adds a new ioctl PIO_VDFFONT to the vt(4)
> driver. I hope I got the reference counting
> on the vt_font_default structure right.
>
> With this patch applied, "vidcontrol -f" restores
> the built-in font.

Can you please submit this to our bug tracker so it doesn't get lost?

https://bugs.freebsd.org/submit

Thanks,

Ben



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