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1 | .\" |
| 2 | .\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without | |
| 5 | .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions | |
| 6 | .\" are met: | |
| 7 | .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright | |
| 8 | .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | |
| 9 | .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright | |
| 10 | .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the | |
| 11 | .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | |
| 12 | .\" | |
| 13 | .\" @(#)vidcontrol.1 | |
| 14 | .\" | |
| 15 | .TH vidcontrol 1 "May 22, 1994" "" "FreeBSD" | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | .SH NAME | |
| 18 | vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver. | |
| 19 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 20 | .na | |
| 21 | .B vidcontrol | |
| 22 | .RB [options] | |
| 23 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 24 | The | |
| 25 | .B vidcontrol | |
| 26 | command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver, | |
| 27 | such as video mode, colors, cursor, scrnmaps, font, | |
| 28 | screensaver type and timeout. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to | |
| 31 | .B vidcontrol | |
| 32 | eg. " | |
| 33 | .B vidcontrol 80x25 | |
| 34 | ". | |
| 35 | ||
| 36 | The modes currently supported: 80x25 and 80x50 text. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the | |
| 39 | foreground color (eg. " | |
| 40 | .B vidcontrol white | |
| 41 | "), or both a foreground & background | |
| 42 | color (eg. " | |
| 43 | .B vidcontrol yellow blue | |
| 44 | "). | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | To see the supported colors on a given platform use " | |
| 47 | .B vidcontrol show | |
| 48 | ". | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 51 | .TP | |
| 52 | The following command line options are supported. | |
| 53 | .TP | |
| 54 | .BI "\-r\ " foreground\ background | |
| 55 | Change reverse mode colors to | |
| 56 | .B foreground | |
| 57 | and | |
| 58 | .B background | |
| 59 | . | |
| 60 | .TP | |
| 61 | .BI "\-b\ " color | |
| 62 | Set border color to | |
| 63 | .B color | |
| 64 | (only supported on VGA hardware): | |
| 65 | .TP | |
| 66 | .BI "\-c\ " start.end | |
| 67 | Change the cursor apperance. The cursor is changed to a shape that starts | |
| 68 | on scanline | |
| 69 | .B start | |
| 70 | and ends on scanline | |
| 71 | .B end | |
| 72 | . | |
| 73 | .TP | |
| 74 | .BI "\-l\ " scrmap | |
| 75 | Install screen output map file from | |
| 76 | .I scrmap | |
| 77 | .TP | |
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78 | .BI "\-L\ " |
| 79 | Install default screen output map. | |
| 80 | .TP | |
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81 | .BI "\-f\ " size\ file |
| 82 | Load font | |
| 83 | .I file | |
| 84 | for | |
| 85 | .I size | |
| 86 | (currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16). | |
| 97fb0b80 | 87 | The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. |
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88 | .TP |
| 89 | .BI "\-t\ " N|off | |
| 90 | Sets the screensaver timeout to | |
| 91 | .I N | |
| 92 | seconds, or turns it | |
| 93 | .I off | |
| 94 | .TP | |
| 95 | .BI "\-s\ " NAME|help | |
| 96 | Sets the screensaver appearance to | |
| 97 | .I NAME . | |
| 98 | Use \-s help to print a list of the available screen savers. | |
| 99 | .PP | |
| 100 | .SH FILES | |
| 101 | /usr/share/syscons/fonts | |
| 102 | /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps | |
| 103 | .SH BUGS | |
| 104 | Report when found. | |
| 105 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| e083f390 | 106 | .BR kbdcontrol(1) , |
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107 | .BR keyboard (4) , |
| 108 | .BR screen (4) , | |
| 109 | .BR /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS | |
| 110 | .SH AUTHORS | |
| 111 |