Credits
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The following people have influenced SVGATextMode in some way or another, or
have contributed to it in a major way. Don't be offended if you're not in,
just let me know if you think you've been wrongly omitted.


The entire Linux Developers' community:
    Without them, this program would be useless, since there would be no
    Linux...      Hip! Hip! ... Hop

Original idea: Wouter 'Zorro' Gadeyne, wrote the first hack for the Cirrus
    Logic card, and it made me so jealous that I changed it to support S3 as
    well. He is also responsible for many tips on how to make the code more
    "C-like". And for constantly nagging about me not going to finish it up
    into something distributable. So I REALLY wanted to prove him wrong.

First Beta testers: (for ET4000 support and general features): Kris Coryn
    and Lieven Gesquiere. Seeing it run on my S3 made THEM so jealous that
    they wanted it for their ET4000 as well. They also allowed me to test it
    on their machines, with all the accompanying system shutdowns, reboots,
    filesystem checks, etc.).

Hardware: Kris 'McCore' Coryn provided an amazing amount of video cards for
    me to test. His continuous feedback has a big impact on the performance
    of SVGATextMode. 

More Hardware: John Seifarth <john@waw.be> donated a MACH64 RageII DVD
    board. It's thanks to him there is MACH64 support at all. It's thanks to
    him there was a new version (1.9) of SVGATextMode at last. 


Authors of programs used directly or indirectly in this package:

Greg Lehey, author of vgaset. He sent me a corrected version
    of vgaset, and allowed me to include it here.
    
Eugene Crosser & Andries Brouwer, authors of "setfont".

Andreas Beck, author of GGI, the "generic Graphics Interface", which should
    ultimately replace all the chipset code and converge X, svgalib and
    SVGATextMode, so they all use the SAME graphics drivers, with less
    cooperation problems. See also http://synergy.foo.net/~ggi

Kenneth Albanowski, author of Ultra2Linux.  Also author of TONS of good
    suggestions, and many, many others. First Author of the DOS port of the
    mode grabbers "grabmode" and "scanmode" and the
    contrib/scripts/grepmodes script. And LONG, LONG mail conversations
    about, amongst other things: ET4000 Wizardry and The Ultimate Text Mode
    Chip.

Stephen Lee, who provided most of the knowledge (and code) to make the DOS
    port of SVGATextMode possible, and several other small topics. Not to
    mention he finally made my S3-805 work properly in svgalib :-) He also
    convinced me to use lex and yacc to parse the config file (he sent me
    the code upon which this parser is based). I'll never forgive him ;-)

The XFREE86 development team, from whom I used a lot of code and ideas for
    pixel clock selection. The clockchip code was copied verbatim from their
    sources.

David Mosberger-Tang, Linux/Alpha version (I never even thought about this
    possibility until he came up with patches...!). see doc/README.Alpha.

Finn Thoegersen, Author of vgadoc4b (and previous versions): a must-have VGA
    documentation library for all us VGA hackers.

Massimiliano Ghilardi, who added Trident TGUI support (and cleaned up some
    other junk), clockdiv2 support for the clockchips and the "hshift"
    modeline parameter. He and Michele Maltoni drew some new fonts.

Trey Boudreau, who did most of the Matrox Millennium/Mystique work

Matthias Grimrath did the MACH64CT hacking.

Andree Borrmann stepped in (starting from STM 1.6) to do the DOS (sup)port.

Harald Koenig, some serious grabmode suggestions (especially about
    alternative clock probing mechanisms for architectures without
    microsecond counters, which is a conditio sine qua non for using
    grabmode on non-Linux machines) This needs to be followed up some day.
    MSWindows Grabmode executable.

Frank Klemm contributed a large number of fonts, including those
    hard-to-find big ones.

Joachim Groh, patch to enable the setting of the consoletranslation with
    setfont -u.

Yung Hsu (MACH bugbix in 1.2)

Marcus Crafter, IBM RGB RAMDAC testing and docs suggestions.

Al Simcoe

Joe Waters, S3 Trio problems.

jkekoni@aurora.tky.hut.fi

Benson L Chow

Martin Scherbaum 

G. B. Stott (Cirrus Laguna testing and debugging)

Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi>, ISO_FONT9 patch.

Giacomo COMES (SOG bug)

Molnar Laszlo (DOS)

Timo Giesselmann (S3 SOG code fix)

Michael De La Rue (SYSV init)

Pavel Machek (NeoMagic)


And lots more good and useful suggestions from (in no significant order):

- most of the above

- Daniel Sills, patient and extensive Beta tester, beta site provider
  (ansc.une.edu.au:/pub/SVGATextMode), IBM RGB RAMDAC testing, some other
  VGA card testings,...)

- Peter Chang, Diamond Stealth 32 ICD2061 clock code, testing, debugging,
  Mystique testing, WWW-based beta site provider at
  http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~etzpc/stm.html

- Bob McCracken, extensive interrogation on correct blanking programming,
  and a lot of kernel and misc. information, and some of the programs in
  contrib, lots of Linux kernel info

- David M. Meyer

- Kenneth J. Hendrickson

- Piercarlo Grandi

- Roland Meier, ET4000W32 wizardry, and valuable help with
  doc/README.ET4000.AltClockSelect
  
- Warwick Allison, motivation!

- Alessandro Rubini, lots of help on console/terminal stuff (VT_RESIZE!),
  lots of good ideas, STM's first (surprise) public appearance in LJ, and
  what more...
  
- Reuben Sumner, obscure ATI problem fix, automatic resizing of active VT's,
  SUID terminal protection fix
  
- Jason Yanowitz, help in fixing the ICD2061 problem.
  
- Michael Chew

- Jean-Louis DEBERT, very thorough problem reporting on ICD2061 problem, and
  several other "features" (=bugs))
  
- Stefan Dalibor, W32p/ICS5341 testing
  
- Shawn McHorse, ATIMACH32 test/debug

- Michael Shields, the make_ram_free() function, which should reduce "out of
  memory" errors. Some more bug fixes)
  
- Ton Hospel, C-styling tips

- Keith Owens, small patch to sync-range check

- Ron Sommeling, many small improvements

- Klaus Weber (CIP 92), Headland/Video7 help

- Harm Hanemaaijer, Cirrus Logic clockchip problem

- Brian Springstead, S3 911 high-speed text mode problem - should now work
  from version 1.1

- cshamis@erinet.com, pointed me to the "noblink" package

- Diego Roversi, ALI (avance Logic) help

- Paul David Walker, made me include my silly font editor ;-)

- R.E. Wolff, more on STM memory problem

- Marco Mariani, extensive OAK087 beta testing

- Tom Verbeure, I borrowed his O'Reilly lex/yacc book, without which 
  the transition to the new parser would probably not have been possible.
  He also bought a 17" monitor because STM looked bad on a 12" ;-)

- Jan Doornaert, for making me look for a solution for the ICD2061a clock
  restoral problem, resulting in option "clockchip_x", and for testing it.

- Noel Cragg



More people have contributed code, and they are credited in the HISTORY
file, next to the change that they submitted.


These people contributed new textmodes for inclusion in the TextConfig file:

- Andreas Beck
- Russell Marks
- Carsten Zimmermann
- Alexander JOLK
- Alessandro Rubini
- Barak Pearlmutter
- Shane Turner
- Albert Cahalan
- Robert Schouwenburg
- Kris Coryn
- Jean-Louis Debert
- D.A.B. Niggemann
- Ulrich Dessauer
- John Bashaw
- Delman Lee
- Nicola Bernardelli
- Stanislav Voronyi


S3 Inc. sent me an S3-805 data book, and that really got me going. Thanks.

Infomagic deserves a big thank you for distributing their "Linux developers'
Resource" CDROM-set at a ridiculously affordable price. It is the best
alternative for those poor bastards who don't have direct Internet-access
(like me). They allow the "un-wired" part of the world to get their hands on
Linux, too! The Infomagic CD's are like a pocket-size FTP site.

Tseng Labs provided ET4000W32i/p and ET6000 data books and hardware.

And of course: BARCO (I've heard they are my employer), for providing me
with an invaluable E-mail account.