<PROG-NAME>(1)

NAME
<PROG-NAME> - show information about the video modes available on your computer

SYNOPSIS
<PROG-NAME> -a, --all | -v, --available | modename

DESCRIPTION
<PROG-NAME> is a program for showing which video modes are available on your computer, and gives information about those video modes.

<PROG-NAME> uses svgalib functions to determine what video modes are available with your hardware configuration, and displays some information about the video mode you specify on the command-line. Video modes are specified by their symbolic names, i.e.
		<PROG-NAME> 640x480x256
or
		<PROG-NAME> G640x480x256

Use the --available option to see the names of all the available video modes that can be entered. The information from this program can be useful if you want to know if your computer supports a particular mode, or if you want to know for example, whether a mode has bitblit available.

OPTIONS

-v, --available
    Display the symbolic names of all of the video modes available with your hardware configuration. These are the names you can enter for the modename argument to the program.

-a, --all
    Display mode information for all video modes available with your hardware configuration. Better pipe it to a pager or redirect it to a file, because it's a lot of information.

modename
    The name of a video mode as shown with the -v option. <PROG-NAME> will display information about this mode. The G at the beginning of the name is optional. Thus G640x480x256 and 640x480x256 are equivalent.

LIMITATIONS
This program just uses svgalib functions to get its information, so it is only as accurate as svgalib is.

AUTHOR
Adam P. Jenkins <apj@twain.oit.umass.edu>

SEE ALSO
svgalib documents, probably under /usr/src/svgalib.