freebsd-dev/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1

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.Dd May 22, 1994
.Dt VIDCONTROL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vidcontrol
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl r Ar fg Ar bg
.Op Fl b Ar color
.Op Fl c Ar appearance
.Op Fl d
.Op Fl l Ar scrmap
.Op Fl L
.Op Fl m Ar on|off
.Op Fl f Ar size Ar file
.Op Fl s Ar number
.Op Fl t Ar N|off
.Op Fl x
.Op mode
.Op fgcol Op bgcol
.Op show
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver,
such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout.
.Pp
The following command line options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It mode
Select a new video mode. The modes currently supported are:
.Ar VGA_40x25 ,
.Ar VGA_80x25 ,
.Ar VGA_80x50 ,
.Ar EGA_80x25 ,
.Ar EGA_80x43 .
On some laptops the modes
.Ar VGA_80x30
and
.Ar VGA_80x60
can be used.
The graphic mode
.Ar VGA_320x200
can also be chosen.
.It fgcol Op bgcol
Change colors when displaying text. Specify the foreground color
(e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background color
(e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue").
.It show
See the supported colors on a given platform.
.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background
Change reverse mode colors to
.Ar foreground 
and 
.Ar background .
.It Fl b Ar color
Set border color to 
.Ar color 
(only supported on VGA hardware).
.It Fl c Ar normal|blink|destructive
Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block 
(normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor
(destructive). The latter is actually a simulation.
.It Fl d
Print out current screen output map.
.It Fl l Ar scrmap
Install screen output map file from
.Ar scrmap
.It Fl L
Install default screen output map.
.It Fl m Ar on|off
Switch the mousepointer
.Ar on
or
.Ar off .
Used together with the moused
daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.
.It Fl f Ar size Ar file
Load font
.Ar file
for
.Ar size
(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
.It Fl s Ar number
Set the current vty to
.Ar number .
.It Fl t Ar N|off
Set the screensaver timeout to
.Ar N
seconds, or turns it
.Ar off .
.It Fl x
Use hexadecimal digits for output.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
.Xr keyboard 4 ,
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr moused 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An S<EFBFBD>ren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org