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Subject: bin/5899: VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 sets 80x50 but uses wrong font (8x14 instead of 8x8?)
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>Number:         5899
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 sets 80x50 but uses wrong font (8x14 instead of 8x8?)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Mar  2 04:10:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Frode E. Moe
>Organization:
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>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE
>Environment:
whoa... i don't have access to my box right now, but it's 
a FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE compiled 26th of Feb '98 with all the CVSUpd's
available.
>Description:
The VIDCONTROL VGA_80x50 fails to set a 80x50 textmode properly.
Apparently it uses the 8x14 font instead of the 8x8 font, because
  1: the characters are 'cut in half'; only the upper half is shown
  2: changing the font with VIDCONTROL -F 8x14 [somefont] alters
     the display, while changing the 8x8 font does not.

I've tried loading every possible font for every possible mode,
but cannot get any proper 8x8 font displayed in VGA_80x50
(or VGA_80x60 either).

For the sake of completeness, i have a Matrox Millenium I PCI.
(80x50 textmode works great in DOS though). But if I don't 
load any 8x14 at all, the screen goes completely blank in VGA_80x50
(not even any half-cutted-to-pieces characters appear). I recall
reading somewhere that the MGA Millenium left out the 8x14 font in the
BIOS to make room for VBE 2.0 extensions, but the 8x14 font
shouldn't have anything to do with the 80x50 mode as far as I can see.

>How-To-Repeat:
'vidcontrol VGA_80x50'
 - there's nothing more to it!
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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