runx(1) Svgalib User Manual runx(1)NAMErunx - try to overcome problems of Xfree96 restoring textmode using
svgalib.
SYNOPSISrunxDESCRIPTION
If XFree86 corrupts your textmode font, try putting restorefont(1) in
your path and use the shell script runx to run X. runx saves the VGA
font data in /tmp/fontdata, and restores it when you exit X.
The runx script actually is:
#!/bin/sh
echo Saving font in /tmp/fontdata
restorefont -w /tmp/fontdata
startx
echo Restoring font from /tmp/fontdata
restorefont -r /tmp/fontdata
Note that this doesn't help with syncing problems.
A more rigorous alternative is to run the savetextmode(1) script before
running X, and textmode(1) after. This will restore the textmode regis‐
ters and the VGA palette in addition to the VGA font.
Assuming that savetextmode(1) and textmode(1) are in your PATH the runx
script would then look like:
#!/bin/sh
echo Saving SVGA state
savetextmode
startx
echo restoring SVGA state
textmode
This utility is part of svgalib and can be found in the utils/ subdi‐
rectory of the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not
installed by default, s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your
svgalib was install by a linux distribution.
However, this is no big deal as it was printed out above already ;-).
SEE ALSOsvgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), convfont(1), dumpreg(1),
restorefont(1), restorepalette(1), restoretextmode(1), fix132x43(1),
savetextmode(1), setmclk(1), textmode(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-
essen.de>. The exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the
original documentation is unknown.
It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to Harm
Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.
Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the
original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections to
this first version of the svgalib manual.
Svgalib (>= 1.2.11) 2 Aug 1997 runx(1)
