usr.bin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1

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.TH vidcontrol 1 "May 22, 1994" "" "FreeBSD"

.SH NAME
vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B vidcontrol
.RB [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B vidcontrol
command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver,
such as video mode, colors, cursor, scrnmaps, font,
screensaver type and timeout.

A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to
.B vidcontrol
eg. "
.B vidcontrol 80x25
".

The modes currently supported: 80x25 and 80x50 text.

The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the
foreground color (eg. "
.B vidcontrol white
"), or both a foreground & background
color (eg. "
.B vidcontrol yellow blue
").

To see the supported colors on a given platform use "
.B vidcontrol show
".

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
The following command line options are supported.
.TP
.BI "\-r\ " foreground\ background
Change reverse mode colors to
.B foreground
and
.B background
.
.TP
.BI "\-b\ " color
Set border color to
.B color
(only supported on VGA hardware):
.TP
.BI "\-c\ " start.end
Change the cursor apperance. The cursor is changed to a shape that starts
on scanline
.B start
and ends on scanline
.B end
.
.TP
.BI "\-l\ " scrmap
Install screen output map file from
.I scrmap
.TP
.BI "\-L\ "
Install default screen output map.
.TP
.BI "\-f\ " size\ file
Load font
.I file
for
.I size
(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
.TP
.BI "\-t\ " N|off
Sets the screensaver timeout to
.I N
seconds, or turns it
.I off
.TP
.BI "\-s\ " NAME|help
Sets the screensaver appearance to
.I NAME .
Use \-s help to print a list of the available screen savers.
.PP
.SH FILES
/usr/share/syscons/fonts
/usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
.SH BUGS
Report when found.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR kbdcontrol(1) ,
.BR keyboard (4) ,
.BR screen (4) ,
.BR /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS
.SH AUTHORS
Søren Schmidt (sos@login.dkuug.dk)