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- Credits
- =======
-
-
- The following people have influenced SVGATextMode in some way or another, or
- have contributed to it in a major way. Don't be offended if you're not in,
- just let me know if you think you've been wrongly omitted.
-
-
- The entire Linux Developers' community:
- Without them, this program would be useless, since there would be no
- Linux... Hip! Hip! ... Hop
-
- Original idea: Wouter Gadeyne (Wouter.Gadeyne@p24.f1906.n291.z2.fidonet.org
- or gadeynew@sebb.bel.alcatel.be), who wrote the first program for the
- Cirrus Logic card, and it made me so jealous that I changed it to
- support S3 as well. He is also responsible for many tips on how to make
- the code more "C-like". And for constantly nagging about me not going to
- finish it up into something distributable. So I REALLY wanted to prove
- him wrong.
-
- First Beta testers: (for ET4000 support and general features): Kris Coryn
- (kcoryn@texas.knooppunt.be) and Lieven Gesquiere
- (gesquiel@sebb.bel.alcatel.be). Seeing it run on my S3 made THEM so
- jealous that they wanted it for their ET4000 as well. They also allowed
- me to test it on their machines, with all the accompanying system
- shutdowns, reboots, filesystem checks, etc.).
-
- Hardware: Kris 'McCore' Coryn provided an amazing amount of video cards for
- me to test. His continuous feedback has a big impact on the performance
- of SVGATextMode.
-
-
- Authors of programs used directly or indirectly in this package:
-
- Greg Lehey, author of vgaset. He sent me a corrected version
- of vgaset, and allowed me to include it here.
-
- Eugene Crosser & Andries Brouwer, authors of "setfont".
-
- Andreas Beck, author of GGI, the "generic Graphics Interface", which should
- ultimately replace all the chipset code and converge X, svgalib and
- SVGATextMode, so they all use the SAME graphics drivers, with less
- cooperation problems.
-
- Kenneth Albanowski, author of Ultra2Linux. Also author of TONS of good
- suggestions, and many, many others. First Author of the DOS port of the
- mode grabbers "grabmode" and "scanmode" and the
- contrib/scripts/grepmodes script. And LONG, LONG mail conversations
- about, amongst other things: ET4000 Wizardry and The Ultimate Text Mode
- Chip.
-
- Stephen Lee, who provided most of the knowledge (and code) to make the DOS
- port of SVGATextMode possible, and several other small topics. Not to
- mention he finally made my S3-805 work properly in svgalib :-) He also
- convinced me to use lex and yacc to parse the config file (he sent me
- the code upon which this parser is based). I'll never forgive him ;-)
-
- The XFREE86 development team, from whom I used a lot of code and ideas for
- pixel clock selection. The clockchip code was copied verbatim from their
- sources.
-
- David Mosberger-Tang, Linux/Alpha version (I never even thought about this
- possibility until he came up with patches...!). see doc/README.Alpha.
-
- Finn Thoegersen, Author of vgadoc4b (and previous versions): a must-have VGA
- documentation library for all us VGA hackers.
-
-
-
- And lots more good and useful suggestions from (in no significant order):
-
- - most of the above
-
- - Daniel Sills, patient and extensive Beta tester, beta site provider
- (ansc.une.edu.au:/pub/SVGATextMode), IBM RGB RAMDAC testing, some other
- VGA card testings,...)
-
- - Peter Chang, Diamond Stealth 32 ICD2061 clock code, testing, debugging,
- WWW-based beta site provider at
- http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~etzpc/stm.html
-
- - Bob McCracken, extensive interrogation on correct blanking programming,
- and a lot of kernel and misc. information, and some of the programs in
- contrib, lots of Linux kernel info
-
- - David M. Meyer
-
- - Kenneth J. Hendrickson
-
- - Piercarlo Grandi
-
- - Roland Meier, ET4000W32 wizardry, and valuable help with
- doc/README.ET4000.AltClockSelect
-
- - Warwick Allison, motivation!
-
- - Alessandro Rubini, lots of help on console/terminal stuff (VT_RESIZE!),
- lots of good ideas, STM's first (surprise) public appearance in LJ, and
- what more...
-
- - Reuben Sumner, obscure ATI problem fix, automatic resizing of active VT's,
- SUID terminal protection fix
-
- - Jason Yanowitz, help in fixing the ICD2061 problem.
-
- - Michael Chew
-
- - Jean-Louis DEBERT, very thorough problem reporting on ICD2061 problem, and
- several other "features" (=bugs))
-
- - Stefan Dalibor, W32p/ICS5341 testing
-
- - Shawn McHorse, ATIMACH32 test/debug
-
- - Michael Shields, the make_ram_free() function, which should reduce "out of
- memory" errors. Some more bug fixes)
-
- - Ton Hospel, C-styling tips
-
- - Keith Owens, small patch to sync-range check
-
- - Ron Sommeling, many small improvements
-
- - Klaus Weber (CIP 92), Headland/Video7 help
-
- - Harm Hanemaaijer, Cirrus Logic clockchip problem
-
- - Brian Springstead, S3 911 high-speed text mode problem - should now work
- from version 1.1
-
- - cshamis@erinet.com, pointed me to the "noblink" package
-
- - Diego Roversi, ALI (avance Logic) help
-
- - Paul David Walker, made me include my silly font editor ;-)
-
- - R.E. Wolff, more on STM memory problem
-
- - Marco Mariani, extensive OAK087 beta testing
-
- - Tom Verbeure, I borrowed his O'Reilly lex/yacc book, without which
- the transition to the new parser would probably not have been possible.
- He also bought a 17" monitor because STM looked bad on a 12" ;-)
-
- - Jan Doornaert, for making me look for a solution for the ICD2061a clock
- restoral problem, resulting in option "clockchip_x", and for testing it.
-
- - Harald Koenig, serious grabmode suggestions (especially about alternative
- clock probing mechanisms for architectures without microsecond counters,
- which is a conditio sine qua non for using grabmode on non-Linux machines)
- This needs to be followed up some day.
- MSWindows Grabmode executable.
-
- - Noel Cragg
-
- - Joachim Groh, patch to enable the setting of the consoletranslation with
- setfont -u.
-
- - Yung Hsu (MACH bugbix in 1.2)
-
- - Marcus Crafter, IBM RGB RAMDAC testing and docs suggestions.
-
- - Al Simcoe
-
-
-
- These people contributed new textmodes for inclusion in the TextConfig file:
-
- - Andreas Beck
- - Russell Marks
- - Carsten Zimmermann
- - Alexander JOLK
- - Alessandro Rubini
- - Barak Pearlmutter
- - Shane Turner
- - Albert Cahalan
- - Robert Schouwenburg
- - Kris Coryn
- - Jean-Louis Debert
- - D.A.B. Niggemann
- - Ulrich Dessauer
- - John Bashaw
- - Delman Lee
-
-
- Also thanks to all those who sent me a birthday mail :-)
-
- S3 Inc. sent me an S3-805 data book, and that really got me going. Thanks.
-
- Infomagic deserves a big thank you for distributing their "Linux developers'
- Resource" CDROM-set at a ridiculously affordable price. It is the best
- alternative for those poor bastards who don't have direct Internet-access
- (like me). They allow the "un-wired" part of the world to get their hands on
- Linux, too! The Infomagic CD's are like a pocket-size FTP site.
-
- And of course: BARCO, for providing me with an invaluable E-mail account.
- It's been a rather busy one lately...
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