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SVGATextMode version 1.1 is out... somewhere.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Dec 9 01:32:18 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:08:39 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Koen Gadeyne <kmg@barco.be>
Subject: SVGATextMode version 1.1 is out... somewhere.
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Hello,
This is an announcement of a new (and, who knows, possibly improved) version of
SVGATextMode, one of the many Linux console enhancement tools.
Here's the LSM (Linux Software Map) file for it (saves me another
description ;-):
Begin3
Title: SVGA textmode manipulation/enhancement
Version: 1.1
Entered-date: 30NOV95
Description: Uses extra features found in SVGA video cards (high pixel
clocks) to enhance Linux text modes independently of what the
BIOS can do. It is configured with an XF86Config-like file, and
allows setting of pixel clock, H/V timings, font size, cursor
size, etc. Enables using the video card AND the monitor to
their full potential in textmode, as with the XFree86 X-server.
Current support includes S3, ET4000, Cirrus Logic, Trident,
Western Digital, ATI (and MACH32), Video7 (Headland), Avance
Logic (ALI), and Oak Technology (OTI) cards.
It can also use an external clock program and supports all S3
clock chips from XFREE 3.1.2. Features automatic font loading,
monitor definition (H/V frequency limits), on-the-fly screen
resizing, cursor shape definition, ...
Also includes: palette changer, pixelclock probe, text/graphics
mode grabber, VGA register hacking tool, and a multi-chipset/
clockchip ClockProg for X that supports ALL chipsets and
clockchips from SVGATextMode.
Binaries for Linux and DOS included for SVGATextMode and
grabmode.
Keywords: SVGA VGA console screen monitor XFREE Xconfig XF86Config
Author: kmg@barco.be (Koen Gadeyne)
Maintained-by: kmg@barco.be (Koen Gadeyne)
Primary-site: tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux/sources/sbin
458049 SVGATextMode-1.1.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux/utils/console
Original-site:
Platform: Linux machine (Intel or Alpha) with one of the supported VGA
cards, kernel 1.1.54 or newer.
Copying-policy: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2
End
(for people in Australia, there's a copy on borg.une.edu.au:/pub as well)
Version 1.1 contains the following meaningless changes with respect to the
previous (1.0) version:
- - removed null-pointer writing bug that caused ELF and DOS code to exit with
a segmentation fault (why don't they call that a "guru meditation"
anymore?) in DefaultMode scanning code.
- - Updated S3 clockchip code to XFree86 3.1.2, so now IBM RGB RAMDAC's are
supported. But who would use such a beast in TEXT mode?
Other new clockchips are included, but UNTESTED!
- - Added S3 high speed text font mode. This can be enabled with option
"S3HSText" in config file. Now S3 can do over 80 MHZ in text mode!
This should help S3 911, 924 and 928 (and the likes) owners who had
problems with SVGATextMode in earlier versions.
- - ALI (Advance Logic) chipset support.
- - You can now set the border color of the screen. But you don't want that...
- - The underline position is now programmable. But who needs that?
- - Another bug that caused havoc on some ELF systems (e.g. Caldera's network
Desktop):
They got an error about /dev/tty0 not existing.
- - added OTI67/77/87 (Oak technologies) chipset support.
- - The infamous "out of memory" messages should be less frequent now. So if
you bought extra memory: send it to me, you probably don't need it anymore
;-)
- - Linux a.out, Linux ELF and DOS executables included!
That's it.
Koen.
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Koen Gadeyne -- Barco R&D Dpt -- Digital Video Processing Group
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