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- This directory contains several utilities not directly linked to
- SVGATextMode, but in one way or another useful to SVGATextMode users.
-
- * All binaries in this directory are in a.out format! If you have an ELF
- * system, you'll have to recompile them.
-
-
- Ultra2Linux:
-
- A utility to convert UltraVision fonts to Linux fonts. Ultravision
- is a commercial (!) DOS program with similar functionality as
- SVGATextMode. Those of you who bought a copy of Ultravision should
- be able to use this tool to convert some fonts from Ultravision to
- the linux format used by "setfont" (also in this directory).
- UltraVision fonts are attractive because they also exist in a
- 20-pixel high version, which is unavailable in the standard Linux
- fonts.
- Author: Kenneth Albanowski
-
-
- setfont:
-
- A small tool to set the text mode font. It was taken from the
- "keytbls" package included in the Slackware distribution. It can
- also be found in the "kbd-0.87.tar.gz" package (or any newer
- version) available on many FTP sites that carry Linux software.
- Authors: Eugene Crosser & Andries Brouwer
-
- Also note the "8x8plus" font. It is a normal PC font (instead of
- Cyrillic). It will load as an 8x32 font but will work for 8x8 to
- 8x14. The letters will all fit in an 8x8 cell, but the line drawing
- chars are a full 8x32. (contributed by Albert Cahalan
- <albert@ccs.neu.edu>).
-
- It would be a nice thing if ALL fonts used "extended" (full 32-pixel
- high) line drawing chars, so they can be used for bigger font sizes
- as well, without compromising boxes and lines.
-
-
-
- vgaset:
-
- Another hacking tool. It can be used to fine-tune text modes (or
- X-Windows graphics modes). It allows you to move the screen
- position, set sync widths, and many more. See the documentation in
- the vgaset directory for more information.
- Author: Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.de)
-
-
- svgalib:
-
- Some sample applications of how the tools from SVGATextMode can be
- used in svgalib, and for other applications also.
-
- 'et4000.grab_svgalib_mode' is a script to grab an svgalib-compatible
- mode from your vga card. It outputs a block of text you can put into
- the libvga.config file.
-
- 'libvga.et4000-320x200x16M' contains a libvga.config entry for an
- 320x200 mode with 16M colors, which is normally unavailable for
- those cards (they have 640x400 at 16M colors, but that makes those
- MPEG files as big as stamps.)
-
- There is also an s3.grab_svgalib_mode script, which does the same
- for S3 as the previous one for ET4000. I didn't need this for
- svgalib, but both scripts can be very usefull to determine what
- register in the chipset is responsible for a problem. Comparing
- register dumps for a "good" and a "bad" case. We used the ET4000
- script to pin down a problem in X (mouse cursor garbage on PCI
- cards)
-
-
-
- loadfont:
-
- An alternative to the "setfont" program from svgalib. Written by
- Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu>.
-
- It understands more font files than setfont, and it can extract fonts
- to raw files. It still spits out weird/extra messages sometimes.
-
-
- probe_clocks:
-
- A small and rudimentary script that probes for the available clocks,
- like the XFREE probe does.
-
-
- scripts:
-
- This directory contains some useful scripts for SVGATextMode:
-
- - rc.font can be put in /etc/rc.d, and will change the text mode to
- 100x37 chars at boot time.
-
- - STMmenu is a script that shows a dialog box with all allowed text
- modes in it - supposing your TextConfig file is configured
- correctly.
-
- - STM_reset is an example script of a reset program, which can be
- executed automatically after SVGATextMode has finished. Anything
- you want to get done when changing text modes can be put in here
- (like restarting some screen-size dependent programs).
-
- - resize_patch is a kernel patch to make the SIGWINCH work for e.g. gpm.
-
- - cleanup_TextConfig formats the mode lines in the TextConfig file so
- they all use the same spcing (easy for further grepping/cutting/...)
-
-
- DOS
-
- The DOS directory contains (what else!) tools which could be useful
- to configure both SVGATextMode and XFREE86, using the modes known by DOS.
-
- - a DOS port of SVGATextMode: stm.exe
-
- - a free DMPI environment, CWSDPMI, needed to run both grabmode.exe
- and stm.exe.
-
- - grabmode.exe is, just like the Linux version, a mode grabber that
- reports a mode line comatible with SVGATextMode and XFREE.
-
- - scanmode.exe scans all DOS (and VESA, when available) text and
- graphics modes, and outputs two files (tconfig and xconfig)
- containing resp. config lines for SVGATextMode and XFREE86.
-
- - grabwin.exe is an MSWindows mode grabber. This is a stripped
- version of the SVGATextMode-1.1 grabmode, compiled by Harald Koenig
-
-
- changefont
-
- Two small quick-and-dirty programs to make changes to a font - or
- create a new one if you're VERY courageous). Far from user-friendly,
- but they work.
-
-
- setcolor
-
- A replacement for the setpalette program included in SVGATextMode,
- which will not work with newer kernels (1.3.x or above) anymore
- because they reset the VGA palette on every VT-switch. This program
- changes the palette in the kernel, so THAT one gets restored each
- time.
-
- consoletools
-
- contains some useful tools for handling consoles, grabbing text,
- etc. See the README there.
-
-