the following fixes had been made:
- check the size of the font being loaded and compare it with possible sizes
to minimise possibility of loading something that is not a fontfile at all
and turning console screen into garbage;
- prevent buffer overflow (and coredump as a result ) when loading valid
uuencoded file with size that exceeds allocated buffer;
- correct and improve several error messages.
Approved by: -audit, -hackers (silently)
Replace all in-tree uses with necessary subset of <sys/{fb,kb,cons}io.h>.
This is also the appropriate fix for exo-tree sources.
Put warnings in <machine/console.h> to discourage use.
November 15th 2000 the warnings will be converted to errors.
January 15th 2001 the <machine/console.h> files will be removed.
- Sort xrefs.
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7).
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.
PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
Grammar and Spelling Reviewed by: mpp
While mpp kindly checked grammar and spelling, any technical errors
remaining in the man pages are entirely of mine.
- Accept generic video mode names: 80x25, 80x30, etc. Specific video
mode names, VGA_80x25, VESA_132x25, are still accpeted too.
- Update the man page accordingly.
Kazu writes:
The VESA support code requires vm86 support. Make sure your kernel
configuration file has the following line.
options "VM86"
If you want to statically link the VESA support code to the kernel,
add the following option to the kernel configuration file.
options "VESA"
The vidcontrol command now accepts the following video mode names:
VESA_132x25, VESA_132x43, VESA_132x50, VESA_132x60, VESA_800x600
The VESA_800x600 mode is a raster display mode. The 80x25 text will
be displayed on the 800x600 screen. Useful for some laptop computers.
vidcontrol accepts the new `-i <info>' option, where <info> must be
either `adapter' or `mode'. When the `-i adapter' option is given,
vidcontrol will print basic information (not much) on the video
adapter. When the `-i mode' option is specified, vidcontrol will
list video modes which are actually supported by the video adapter.
Submitted by: Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@FreeBSD.ORG
them as ints. Among other bugs, doing so at best caused benign
overflow followed by fatal sign extension on machines with 32-bit
ints and 64-bit longs.
