Package: svgatextmode Version: 1.9-19 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/SVGATextMode.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages svgatextmode depends on: ii kbd-compat [kbd] 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Wrappers around console-tools for ii libc6 2.7-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries svgatextmode recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- SVGATextMode.8 2007-09-20 21:07:14.000000000 -0400 +++ /tmp/SVGATextMode.8 2008-05-20 01:08:33.000000000 -0400 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ \fBSVGATextMode\fP provides a means to seriously enhance the looks of your Linux text consoles, by re-programming the (S)VGA hardware. It uses a configuration file similar to the one the XFree86 X-windows server uses -(Xconfig or XF86Config) to set up better looking textmodes. (=higher +(Xconfig or XF86Config) to set up better looking text modes. (=higher resolution, larger font size, higher display refresh...). It works independently of what text modes are allowed from the BIOS. In @@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ .TP .B ATIMACH32 -ATI MACH32 and MACH64. Many MACH64 cards use special RAMDACs and clockchips +ATI MACH32 and MACH64. Many MACH64 cards use special RAMDACs and clock chips that are not yet supported by SVGATextMode. Those will not work. .TP .B ATIMACH64 -Only MACH64 boards with internal clockchips are supported. +Only MACH64 boards with internal clock chips are supported. .TP .B VIDEO7 @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ command to restore text mode... You will have to do a "kbd_mode -a" from a remote terminal first. Unless you add "kbd_mode -a" to the file defined in the "ResetProg" label in the TextConfig file, and have "stm -o" under a -mousebutton combination with the GPM mouse package. +mouse button combination with the GPM mouse package. Another fun-stopper is the extended VGA registers, which this option does _not_ reset, because they are chipset-dependent. This means that the "-o" @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ height. .SH BUGS -Probaby zillions of them. And for a program that must be run as root, and +Probably zillions of them. And for a program that must be run as root, and that changes hardware registers, this is not a good thing. .TP @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ .TP .B DOSEMU Ditto. Only worse. Dosemu only "knows" about some basic VGA cards, but has -no knowledgs whatsoever about clock chips and more modern VGA chips. Chances +no knowledge whatsoever about clock chips and more modern VGA chips. Chances are DOSEMU gets you in text mode trouble. DOSEMU might not be clever enough to reset all your card's VGA registers @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ After rebooting to DOS (shame on you! There's a Doom for Linux also) or when starting DOSEMU, the text mode screen, or, more likely some graphics modes might produce a non-syncing display. This is more likely to happen on boards -that use a clockchip (i.e. when the TextConfig file has a \`ClockChip' line +that use a clock chip (i.e. when the TextConfig file has a \`ClockChip' line enabled. The reason for this is that some card's BIOSses don't care to reset all @@ -679,13 +679,13 @@ problems will be solved. The only tricky part here is to find out what that default clock is... -Since SVGATextMode reprograms clock #2 (the third clock) on most clockchips, +Since SVGATextMode reprograms clock #2 (the third clock) on most clock chips, the default clock value depends on the clockchip type you're using. Only clocks #0 and #1 are the same for (almost) all VGA chips, and thus this -method is only really simple for those clockchips where clock #0 (default = +method is only really simple for those clock chips where clock #0 (default = 25.175 MHz) or #1 (28.3 MHz) is reprogrammed. This is currently only for the -icd2061a (or the equivalent ics9161) clockchips when the "clockchip_x" +icd2061a (or the equivalent ics9161) clock chips when the "clockchip_x" option is used. .TP
