Begin3 Title: SVGA textmode manipulation/enhancement Version: 1.10 Entered-date: 02SEP00 Description: Uses extra features found on 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, Tseng Labs, Cirrus Logic, Trident, Western Digital, ATI, ATI MACH8, MACH32 and MACH64CT, Video7 (Headland), Avance Logic (ALI), Oak Technology (OTI), SiS, RealTek, ARK, NCR, Genoa (GVGA), MX, Matrox (Millennium and Mystique), NeoMagic and RIVA 128/TNT/TNT2 chips. It can also use an external clock program and supports all S3 clock chips from XFREE 3.3. 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 XFree86 Xconfig XF86Config Author: koen.gadeyne@barco.com (Koen Gadeyne) Maintained-by: gandalf@winds.org (Byron Stanoszek) Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/console 443k SVGATextMode-1.10-src.tar.gz 240k SVGATextMode-1.10-bin.tar.gz Alternate-site: winds.org /pub/linux/SVGATextMode 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 End