105 lines
2.2 KiB
Groff
105 lines
2.2 KiB
Groff
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.TH runx 1 "2 Aug 1997" "Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)" "Svgalib User Manual"
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.SH NAME
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runx \- try to overcome problems of Xfree96 restoring textmode using svgalib.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI runx
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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If XFree86 corrupts your textmode font, try putting
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.BR restorefont (1)
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in your path and use the shell script
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.B runx
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to run X.
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.B runx
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saves the VGA font data in
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.IR /tmp/fontdata ,
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and restores it when you exit X.
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The
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.B runx
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script actually is:
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.RS
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.B #!/bin/sh
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.br
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.B echo Saving font in /tmp/fontdata
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.br
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.B restorefont -w /tmp/fontdata
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.br
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.B startx
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.br
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.B echo Restoring font from /tmp/fontdata
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.br
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.B restorefont -r /tmp/fontdata
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.RE
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Note that this doesn't help with syncing problems.
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A more rigorous alternative is to run the
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.BR savetextmode (1)
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script before running X, and
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.BR textmode (1)
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after. This will restore the textmode registers and the VGA palette in addition to the VGA font.
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Assuming that
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.BR savetextmode (1)
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and
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.BR textmode (1)
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are in your
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.BR PATH
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the
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.B runx
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script would then look like:
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.RS
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.B #!/bin/sh
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.br
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.B echo Saving SVGA state
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.br
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.B savetextmode
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.br
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.B startx
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.br
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.B echo restoring SVGA state
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.br
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.B textmode
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.RE
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.PP
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This utility is part of svgalib and can be found in the
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.I utils/
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subdirectory of the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not installed
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by default, s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your svgalib was install
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by a linux distribution.
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However, this is no big deal as it was printed out above already ;-).
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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 convfont (1),
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.BR dumpreg (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 fix132x43 (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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