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1 | .\" |
| 2 | .\" syscons - a utility for manipulating the syscons 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 | .\" @(#)syscons.1 | |
| 14 | .\" | |
| 15 | .TH syscons 1 "August 24, 1993" "" "FreeBSD" | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | .SH NAME | |
| 18 | syscons - a utility for manipulating the syscons VTY driver. | |
| 19 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 20 | .na | |
| 21 | .B syscons | |
| 22 | .RB [options] | |
| 23 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 24 | The | |
| 25 | .B syscons | |
| 26 | command is used to set various options for the syscons console driver, | |
| 27 | such as font, keymap, current screen, etc. | |
| 28 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 29 | .TP | |
| 30 | The following command line options are supported. | |
| 31 | .TP | |
| 32 | .B \-v | |
| 33 | Turns on verbose output. | |
| 34 | .TP | |
| 35 | .BI "\-s\ " N|off | |
| 36 | Sets the screensaver timeout to | |
| 37 | .I N | |
| 38 | seconds, or turns it | |
| 39 | .I off | |
| 40 | . | |
| 41 | .TP | |
| 42 | .BI "\-m\ " 80x25|80x50 | |
| 43 | Set screen size to 80x25 or 80x50 chars. | |
| 44 | .TP | |
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45 | .BI "\-r\ " [ delay.repeat | slow | fast | normal ] |
| 46 | Set keyboard | |
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47 | .I delay |
| 48 | and | |
| 49 | .I repeat | |
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50 | rates, or use presets for |
| 51 | .I slow, | |
| 52 | .I fast | |
| 53 | or | |
| 54 | .I normal. | |
| 55 | .TP | |
| 56 | .BI "\-S\ " scrmap | |
| 57 | Install screen output map file from | |
| 58 | .I scrmap | |
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59 | .TP |
| 60 | .BI "\-k\ " mapfile | |
| 61 | Install keyboard map file from | |
| 62 | .I mapfile | |
| 63 | .TP | |
| 64 | .BI "\-f\ " size\ file | |
| 65 | Load font | |
| 66 | .I file | |
| 67 | for | |
| 68 | .I size | |
| 69 | (currently, only 8, 14 or 16). | |
| 70 | .TP | |
| 71 | .BI "\-t\ " scr# | |
| 72 | Set current virtual screen to be | |
| 73 | .I scr# | |
| 74 | .TP | |
| 0037764b | 75 | .BI "\-F\ " FN#\ string |
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76 | Set function key |
| 77 | .I FN# | |
| 78 | to send | |
| 79 | .I string | |
| 80 | . | |
| 81 | .PP | |
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82 | .SH FILES |
| 83 | /usr/share/syscons/fonts | |
| 84 | /usr/share/syscons/keymaps | |
| 85 | /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps | |
| 86 | .PP | |
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87 | .SH BUGS |
| 88 | Sure to be some. | |
| 89 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 90 | .BR /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS | |
| 91 | .SH AUTHORS | |
| 92 | Christoph M. Robitschko | |
| 93 | .TP | |
| 94 | Sxren Schmidt (syscons driver & original code). | |
| 95 | .TP | |
| 96 | Jordan Hubbard (this man page). |