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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-27 15:30:30 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-12-27 15:30:30 +0000
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/pcvt/vgaio/vgaio.8 b/usr.sbin/pcvt/vgaio/vgaio.8
index 87af495..87e498a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pcvt/vgaio/vgaio.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/pcvt/vgaio/vgaio.8
@@ -52,12 +52,10 @@ silly,
.Nm
cares of all the things necessary and allows the user to access the
registers of several register groups with their symbolic names.
-
.Ss Options
.Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
.It Fl d
Turn on the grammar parser debugger.
-
.El
.Ss Command language
The command language of
@@ -67,11 +65,11 @@ Commands are executed
line by line as they are entered.
Each line may contain any number of
semicolon-separated input/output commands.
-
+.Pp
Symbolic register names look like:
-
-.D1 Ao Em reggroup Ac Ao Em regnumber Ac
-
+.Pp
+.D1 Ao Em reggroup Ac Aq Em regnumber
+.Pp
with
.Aq Em regnumber
being any hexadecimal number
@@ -93,52 +91,46 @@ standing for the
or
.Em Timing sequencer ,
respectively.
-
+.Pp
An input instruction has the form
-
-.D1 Ao Em regname Ac ?
-
+.Pp
+.D1 Ao Em regname Ac \&?
+.Pp
and will cause
.Nm
to output a line like
-
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
-.Ao Em regname Ac \& = 0x Ns
-.Aq Em number
+.Aq Em regname
+.No = 0x Ns Aq Em number
.Ed
-
+.Pp
An output instruction looks like
-
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Ao Em regname Ac =
.Aq Em number
.Ed
-
+.Pp
Spaces or Tabs between the
.Aq Em reggroup ,
the
.Aq Em regnumber ,
or any of the other tokens are ignored.
They are not required anyway.
-
+.Pp
The
.Dq Em mi
needs a single unused argument to satisfy the syntax :-) (-hm).
-
-
.Ss Access control
The caller must have uid 0 in order to gain the required access to
the IO registers.
-
.Sh HISTORY
This program is considered
.Dq hackware .
It has been developed in order to simplify the process of developing other
software that needs to program the Video Graphics Array.
-
+.Pp
Remember, to use this program, your kernel has to be compiled with XSERVER
-being defined !
-
+being defined!
.Sh AUTHORS
The program has been contributed by
.An J\(:org Wunsch ,
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