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Mention that 8x8 font is required for 43, 50 and 60 line text modes,

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and that font files can be specified in /etc/rc.conf[.local].
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.\" t
.\"
.\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver
.\"
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\"
.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1
.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.14 1998/09/23 10:00:15 yokota Exp $
.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.15 1999/04/08 13:51:54 ghelmer Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 22, 1994
.Dt VIDCONTROL 1
@ -69,15 +70,15 @@ Select a new video mode. The modes currently recognized are:
.Ar VESA_132x43 ,
.Ar VESA_132x50 ,
.Ar VESA_132x60 .
The graphic mode
.Ar VGA_320x200
and
.\"The graphic mode
.\".Ar VGA_320x200
.\"and
The raster text mode
.Ar VESA_800x600
can also be chosen.
Note that not all modes listed above may be supported by the video
hardware, and that the VESA BIOS support must be linked to the kernel
or loaded as a KLD if you wish to use VESA video modes or
132 column modes.
See
.Sx Video Mode Support
below.
.It fgcol Op bgcol
Change colors when displaying text. Specify the foreground color
(e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background color
@ -133,6 +134,51 @@ seconds, or turns it
.It Fl x
Use hexadecimal digits for output.
.El
.Ss Video Mode Support
Note that not all modes listed above may be supported by the video
hardware.
You can verify which mode is supported by the video hardware, using the
.Fl i Ar mode
option.
.Pp
The VESA BIOS support must be linked to the kernel
or loaded as a KLD module if you wish to use VESA video modes
or 132 column modes
.Pq see Xr vga 4 .
.Pp
Video modes other than 25 and 30 line modes may require specific size of font.
Use
.Fl f
option above to load a font file to the kernel.
If the required size of font has not been loaded to the kernel,
.Nm
will fail if the user attempts to set a new video mode.
.Pp
.TS
c s
c c
l c.
Video modes and font size
Modes Font size
25 line modes 8x16 (VGA), 8x14 (EGA)
30 line modes 8x16
43 line modes 8x8
50 line modes 8x8
60 line modes 8x8
.TE
.Pp
It is better to always load all three sizes (8x8, 8x14 and 8x16)
of the same font.
.Pp
You may set
.Ar font8x8 ,
.Ar font8x14
and
.Ar font8x16
variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
to the desired font files so that they will be automatically loaded
when the system starts up.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts
@ -142,6 +188,9 @@ Use hexadecimal digits for output.
.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
.Xr keyboard 4 ,
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr syscons 4 ,
.Xr vga 4 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
.Xr moused 8
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Søren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org