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testlinear(6)		       Svgalib User Manual		   testlinear(6)

NAME
     testlinear, lineart - test a linear frame buffer

SYNOPSIS
     testlinear

DESCRIPTION
     Program  to test linear addressing on Cirrus cards and on Mach32 (and other
     cards which may support it).

     Selects 640x480x256 and tries to enable a linear frame buffer (its  virtual
     address  is  printed). Fills the screen in some color, then draws pixels in
     random positions.

     For Cirrus cards some direct hardware access is  then  made  for  highspeed
     screen  access.   Except  for  the  last  (Cirrus	only) test no speeds are
     printed, but you are welcome to use 'time' to measure it. The program draws
     714400 one byte pixels plus a forced 1s delay and various rand() calls  for
     the pixels.

     The testlinear demo needs a few presses of <Return> after each minimal demo
     step.  Even  when	it  does not prompt for it. When it appears to be stuck,
     just press <Return>.

     The lineart demo is the same, but it accepts a command line with  an  arbi-
     trary  number  of modes.  The modes may be either mode numbers or names, or
     both.  For example,

     lineart 11 17 G800x600x32k 22

     will give a display of mode 11.  If a key is pressed mode 17  will  appear,
     followed by mode 20 and 22 as succesive keys are pressed.

     This demo is part of svgalib and can be found in the demos/ subdirectory of
     the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not installed in the sys-
     tem  by  default,	s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your svgalib
     was installed by some linux distribution. Even then, when you have the demo
     on your system, you probably won't have the sources s.t. it is only of lim-
     ited use for you.

     In case of any such problem, simply get an svgalib  distribution  from  the
     net. You even don't need to install it. Just make in the demos/ subdirecty.
     As  of this writing, svgalib-1.2.12.tar.gz is the latest version and can be
     retrieved by  ftp	from  sunsite.unc.edu  at  /pub/Linux/libs/graphics  and
     tsx-11.mit.edu  at /pub/linux/sources/libs which will most probably be mir-
     rored by a site close to you.

SEE ALSO
     svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5),  threed(6),  accel(6),  bg_test(6),
     eventtest(6), forktest(6), fun(6), keytest(6), mousetest(6), scrolltest(6),
     speedtest(6),   spin(6),  testaccel(6),  testgl(6),  vgatest(6),  plane(6),
     wrapdemo(6)

AUTHOR
     This manual page was  edited  by  Michael	Weller	<eowmob@exp-math.uni-es-
     sen.de>. The exact source of the referenced demo 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 orig-
     inal author and will happily accept any additions or  corrections	to  this
     first version of the svgalib manual.

Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)		  29 July 1997			   testlinear(6)

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