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Re: Coexistance of kbd and svgatextmode...

I got some mail on this as well. I am not quite sure why kdb would need
svgatextmode. Can you not simply drop the dependency?

If people want additional fonts/resolutions then they need to install
svgatextmode and then a change of the video mode can be expected.

If we need to keep the dependency then I could probably make svgatextmode
install without activating itself. Right now it activates a different
screen mode with VGA compatibility which I expect to work on all systems.
But if the VGA settings of the kernel are changed with the vga= boot
parameter then the new mode may not work.
I am still not convinced that this is reason enought to abandon automatic
activation though. Otherwise the user has to do a lot of fiddling around
before getting anything useful out of the package.

On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:

kubla >
kubla >Hi Chris,
kubla >
kubla >seems we should work things out on how to do the consolefont setup.  I
kubla >dropped the support for loading fonts in the kbd package in favour of
kubla >svgatextmode for the following reasons:
kubla >
kubla >- The simple approach of kbd can not cope with different screen
kubla >  resolutions.
kubla >- Installing both packages would have resulted in two different packages
kubla >  messing around with the same item and having distinct configuration
kubla >  files.
kubla >
kubla >So how do we proceed?  Some people want the old setup back but most
kubla >didn't even notice the change.

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