55 lines
1.7 KiB
Groff
55 lines
1.7 KiB
Groff
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.TH dumpreg 1 "2 Aug 1997" "Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)" "Svgalib User Manual"
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.SH NAME
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dumpreg \- dump the state of the card as the svgalib chipset driver sees it.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI dumpreg
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.br
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.BI "dumpreg < /dev/tty" N
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The chipset drivers of svgalib inquire the mode of the graphic card when the application
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is started and restore it when the svgalib application quits.
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.B dumpreg
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prints this information to stdout.
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This is useful for debugging or adding modes to a device driver. For example you can
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use Xfree86 to setup a given mode timing, then run
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.B dumpreg
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and use it's stdout to make your chipset driver use exactly this timing.
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However, the recent change of svgalib to hunt an own free virtual console does not allow
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this, because it will make Xfree86 return to textmode first. You can avoid this by using
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the second form where
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.I N
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is the number of the virtual console on which Xfree86 runs (usually 7) as root.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR svgalib (7),
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.BR vgagl (7),
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.BR libvga.config (5),
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.BR vga_dumpregs (3),
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.BR convfont (1),
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.BR fix132x43 (1),
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.BR restorefont (1),
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.BR restorepalette (1),
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.BR restoretextmode (1),
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.BR runx (1),
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.BR savetextmode (1),
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.BR setmclk (1),
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.BR textmode (1).
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The
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exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the original documentation is
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unknown.
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It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to
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Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.
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Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby
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asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections
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to this first version of the svgalib manual.
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