[Gllug] Could you change the fonts on Bios via the video card?

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 12:34:39 UTC 2011


On 7 June 2011 21:17, Krishna Birth <krishnabirth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, James Courtier-Dutton
>
>> What are you trying to do exactly.
>> Change the look of the BIOS screens during boot, or changing something
>> after boot.
>
>
> 'Greater Bios' :=) on the computer that is see at first before the
> operating system has it own font or ecosystem.  This font is decided
> by the video card which has it's firmware or 'local Bios'.  To change
> the font this local Bios on the video card needs intervening.  Could
> you or anyone else on this mailing lists tell me if you could remove
> the existing font and put another font on  the video card Bios?
>

One, it is not designed to be changed.
Two, Why bother?
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