Bug 19485 – SVGATextMode-1.10.ebuild (New Package)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Ole Langbehn 2003-04-17 11:42:20 UTC]

Please find attached SVGATextMode.tar.gz containing SVGATextMode-1-10.ebuild and 
patches (in files dir) for various compatibility issues (GeForcem, Voodoo, >=gcc
3.2, alpha support, Makefile...).

SVGATextMode uses extra features on SVGA cards to enhance Linux textmodes. It
allows setting of the pixel clock, H/V timings, font size, cursor size, etc, and
lets you use your video card and monitor to their full potential in textmode.
(see homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/svgatextmode/)

I suggest app-misc/SVGATextMode


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Ole Langbehn 2003-04-17 11:43:31 UTC]

Created attachment 10784 [details]
SVGATextMode.tar.gz

[Comment 2 Ole Langbehn 2003-04-17 11:45:41 UTC]

Also included is the digest and a runlevel script to be called at boot time.

[Comment 3 Ole Langbehn 2003-04-17 11:49:31 UTC]

...and I would like and be willing to maintain this ebuild, can you tell me how?

[Comment 4 Ole Langbehn 2003-04-17 12:05:59 UTC]

Created attachment 10788 [details]
SVGATextMode.tar.gz (cleaned up)

Forgot to clean things up, deleted one file and changed the ebuild script.
Sorry...

[Comment 5 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-05-06 17:34:18 UTC]

Please email [e-mail] for maintaining

[Comment 6 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-09-03 10:14:37 UTC]

for selfmaintaining please open a new bug
Category: New Gentoo Developers

[Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 16:41:01 UTC]

svgatextmode seems unmaintained upstream.  what's the story there?

[Comment 8 Brandy Westcott (RETIRED) 2003-10-16 04:08:20 UTC]

The SVGATextMode source tarball contains a file doc/NO_SUPPORT indicating
that the program is no longer in development. One of the pertinant reasons
given is that SVGATextMode functionality has been replaced by framebuffer
support in the Linux kernel.

[Comment 9 Brandy Westcott (RETIRED) 2003-10-28 19:25:43 UTC]

Closing since SVGATextMode is a deprecated program.

[Comment 10 BlGene 2008-06-17 19:07:57 UTC]

The documentation for the VGA console in the 2.6.24 kernel still points one to SVGATextMode, as such does that validate having a ebuild for it. I haven't found any replacements either.

[Comment 11 Ole Langbehn 2008-06-18 07:12:17 UTC]

Replacement is kernel framebuffer. SVGATextMode always was quite unmaintained and hard to setup and does nothing the framebuffer can't do.