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- Title: SVGA textmode manipulation/enhancement
- Version: 1.3
- Entered-date: 21APR96
- 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, ET3000 and ET4000, Cirrus Logic,
- Trident, Western Digital, ATI (and MACH32), Video7 (Headland),
- Avance Logic (ALI), Oak Technology (OTI), SiS, RealTek, ARK,
- NCR, Genoa (GVGA) and MX 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-ELF 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
- 507k SVGATextMode-1.3.tar.gz
- Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux/utils/console
- Original-site:
- Platforms: 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
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