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.\"
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.\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1
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.TH vidcontrol 1 "May 22, 1994" "" "FreeBSD"
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.SH NAME
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vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.na
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.B vidcontrol
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.RB [options]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B vidcontrol
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command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver,
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such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout.
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A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to
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.B vidcontrol
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eg. "
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.B vidcontrol VGA_80x25
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".
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The modes currently supported: VGA_40x25, VGA_80x25, VGA_80x50, EGA_80x25, EGA_80x43.
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On some laptops the modes VGA_80x30 and VGA_80x60 can be used.
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The graphic mode VGA_320x200 can also be chosen.
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The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the
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foreground color (eg. "
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.B vidcontrol white
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"), or both a foreground & background
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color (eg. "
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.B vidcontrol yellow blue
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").
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To see the supported colors on a given platform use "
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.B vidcontrol show
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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The following command line options are supported.
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.TP
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.BI "\-r\ " foreground\ background
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Change reverse mode colors to
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.B foreground
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and
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.B background
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.TP
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.BI "\-b\ " color
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Set border color to
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.B color
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(only supported on VGA hardware):
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.TP
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.BI "\-c\ " normal | blink | destructive
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Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block
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(normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor
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(destructive). The latter is actually a simulation.
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.TP
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.BI "\-d\ "
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Print out current screen output map.
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.TP
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.BI "\-l\ " scrmap
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Install screen output map file from
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.I scrmap
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.TP
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.BI "\-L\ "
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Install default screen output map.
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.TP
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.BI "\-m\ " on|off
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Switches the mousepointer on or off. Used together with the moused
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daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.
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.TP
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.BI "\-f\ " size\ file
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Load font
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.I file
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for
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.I size
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(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
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The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
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.TP
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.BI "\-t\ " N|off
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Sets the screensaver timeout to
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.I N
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seconds, or turns it
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.I off
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.TP
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.BI "\-x\ "
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Use hexadecimal digits for output.
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.PP
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.SH FILES
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/usr/share/syscons/fonts
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/usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
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.SH BUGS
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Report when found.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR kbdcontrol(1) ,
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.BR keyboard (4) ,
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.BR screen (4) ,
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.SH AUTHORS
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S<EFBFBD>ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org)
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