nanogui: Testing the 4 planes Vga Driver - Bare hardware
Subject:
RE: Testing the 4 planes Vga Driver - Bare hardware
From:
Greg Haerr ####@####.####
Date:
6 Oct 1999 01:18:05 -0000
Message-Id: <01BF0F66.0C709990.greg@censoft.com>
extern FONT font_rom8x16; /* font generated with convrom.c */
: FONT *font_ptr = &font_rom8x16;
: rom_char_addr = (FARADDR)( font_ptr->bits );
:
: When I execute the code, the result does not look correct.
:
: Do I need to use the convrom.exe utility ?
:
Whoops. Just figured it out. You need to kype the code from scr_svga.c
driver for using microwindows fonts, rather than rom fonts. just take
the text draw entry point and all it's references. forget rom fonts, you don't
have any. the problem is in the gen_textdraw routine. you've got the wrong one
Greg
