                                 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 Gadeyne (Wouter.Gadeyne@p24.f1906.n291.z2.fidonet.org
    or gadeynew@sebb.bel.alcatel.be), who wrote the first program 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 (Kris.Coryn@p13.f1906.n291.z2.fidonet.org) and Lieven
    Gesquiere (gesquiel@sebb.bel.alcatel.be). 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. 


Authors of programs used directly or indirectly in this package:

Greg Lehey (grog@lemis.de), author of vgaset. He sent me a corrected version
    of vgaset, and allowed me to include it here.
    
Eugene Crosser & Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl), authors of "setfont".

Andreas Beck (becka@hp.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de), author of GGI, the "generic
    Graphics Interface", which should ultimately replace all the chiopset
    code and converge X, svgalib and SVGATextMode, so they all use the SAME
    graphics drivers, with less cooperation problems

Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com), author of Ultra2Linux.  Also author
    of TONS of good suggestions, and many, many others. 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. Maybe I should include some kind of compendium of that in here.
    Great fun! (and educational) (Kenneth, count your mailbox. You'll be
    amazed...)

Stephen Lee (sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu), 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 :-)

The XFREE development team, from whom I used some code for pixel clock
    selection (well, actually a lot of it).

David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@cs.arizona.edu> Linux/Alpha version (I never
    even thought about this possibility until he came up with patches...!).
    see doc/README.ALpha.


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

- most of the above
- David M. Meyer <dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu>
- Kenneth J. Hendrickson <kjh@seas.smu.edu>
- Russell Marks <mr216@greenwich.ac.uk>  (many new text modes)
- Piercarlo Grandi <piercarl@sabi.demon.co.uk>
- Roland Meier <meier@hp56.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) (ET4000W32
  wizardry, and valuable help with doc/README.ET4000.AltClockSelect)
- Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au> (motivation!)
- Carsten Zimmermann <zimmermann@zimnet.hanse.de>  (more new text modes)
- Alessandro Rubini <rubini@ipvvis.UNIPV.IT> (lots of help on console/terminal
  stuff (VT_RESIZE!), lots of good ideas, and what more)
- Alexander JOLK <p6mqt001@cicrp.jussieu.fr>  (more text modes)
- Reuben Sumner <rasumner@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>  (obscure ATI problem
  fix, automatic resizing of active VT's, SUID terminal protection fix)
- Jason Yanowitz <yanowitz@eternity.cs.umass.edu> (help in fixing the
  ICD2061 problem.)
- Michael Chew <mchew@uclink2.Berkeley.EDU>
- Jean-Louis DEBERT <jldebert@zen.dedal.fr.net> (very thorough problem
  reporting on ICD2061 problem, and several other "features" (=bugs))
- Stefan Dalibor <Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> (W32p/ICS5341
  testing)
- Shawn McHorse <smchorse@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (ATIMACH32 test/debug)
- Michael Shields <shields@tembel.org> (the make_ram_free() function, which
  should reduce "out of memory" errors. Some more bug fixes)
- Ton Hospel <Ton.Hospel@linux.cc.kuleuven.ac.be> (C-styling tips)
- Keith Owens <kaoss@singnet.com.sg> (small patch to sync-range check)
- Ron Sommeling <sommel@sci.kun.nl> (many small improvements)
- Klaus Weber (CIP 92) <ksweber@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
  (Headland/Video7 help)
- Bob McCracken <kerouac@well.com> (extensive interrogation on correct
  blanking programming)
- Brian Springstead <brian@j51.com> (high speed font fetch mode trouble on S3)
- Harm Hanemaaijer <hhanemaa@alchemy.cs.ruu.nl> (Cirrus Logic clockchip problem)
  (has he vanished from the net?)
- Brian Springstead <brian@j51.com> (S3 911 high-speed text mode problem -
  not solved yet...)
- cshamis@erinet.com (pointed me to the "noblink" package)
- Diego Roversi <diego@euphoria.telnetwork.it> (future ALI (avance Logic)
  support (not in 1.0 yet).
- Paul David Walker <pdwalker@HK.Super.NET> (made me include my silly font
  editor ;-)


Also thanks to all those who sent me a birthday mail :-)

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.

And of course: BARCO, for providing me with an invaluable E-mail account.
It's been a rather busy one lately...

