[fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

[Vinzent Hoefler]

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, Anthonyh63 at comcast.net 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.