This directory contains the merging of my very old private-source mod to the solaris vgatext driver, back in 2002, with the latest OpenSolaris vgatext driver, as of june 2006. I have attempted to construct the tarfile in sucn a way that it should be compilable on any Solaris 10 x86 install, rather than just "OpenSolaris".
The purpose of my mods, are to allow for use of your choice of
vga-supported sized font, on a solarisx86 console.
VGA text mode should support 80x25, 80x30, and 80x50.
That means font heights of 16, 14, or 8 pixels, should be acceptible
At this point, this is only an experimental driver. It should not be considered robust at all. may lock up your console access, or possibly crash your machine.
You can "compile" any appropriate sized font into a loadable kernel module to use. Details on how to do this, are in the makefile. Unfortunately, the only currently usable font type is ".bdf". However, if you have the solaris "font server" enabled (in inetd usually), you can use fstobdf to generate a .bdf from any installed font you like.
Latest tarball: (compiles only, has not been verified!)
vgatext.tar (June 4th 2006)