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Grammar and spelling fixes, improved the wording a bit

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A slightly different patch than the one from the PR was applied

PR:		38815
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@guest.reppep.com>
MFC after:	3 days
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brueffer 2003-04-21 19:08:35 +00:00
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@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ so that
.Xr getty 8
will recognize them to be active and run
.Xr login 1
to let the user to login to the system.
to let the user log in to the system.
By default, only the first eight virtual terminals are activated in
.Pa /etc/ttys .
.Pp
@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ You can also use the ``nscr'' key (usually the
key on the AT Enhanced keyboard) to cycle available virtual terminals.
.Pp
The default number of available virtual terminals is 16.
This can be changed by the kernel configuration option
This can be changed with the kernel configuration option
.Dv MAXCONS
(see below).
.Pp
@ -157,10 +157,10 @@ command can be used to load a font file from
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts .
.Pp
The font comes in various sizes: 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16.
The 8x16 font is typically used for the VGA card in the 80-column-
by-25-line mode.
Other video modes may require different size of font.
It is better to always load these three sizes of the same font.
The 8x16 font is typically used for the VGA card in the
80-column-by-25-line mode.
Other video modes may require different font sizes.
It is better to always load all three sizes of the same font.
.Pp
You may set
.Ar font8x8 ,
@ -168,43 +168,43 @@ You may set
and
.Ar font8x16
variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
to the desired font files so that they will be automatically loaded
when the system starts up.
.Pp
Optionally you can make a particular font file as the default font.
Optionally you can specify a particular font file as the default.
See the
.Dv SC_DFLT_FONT
option below.
.Ss Screen Map
If your video card does not support software font, you may still be able
to have similar effect by re-mapping font hard-wired in the video card.
If your video card does not support software fonts, you may still be able
to achive a similar effect by re-mapping the font built into your video card.
Use
.Xr vidcontrol 1
to load a screen map file which defines mapping between character codes.
to load a screen map file which defines the mapping between character codes.
.Ss Mouse Support and Copy-and-Paste
You can use your mouse to copy text on the screen and paste it as if
it is typed by hand.
it was typed by hand.
You must be running the mouse daemon
.Xr moused 8
and enable the mouse cursor in the virtual terminal via
.Xr vidcontrol 1 .
.Pp
Pressing the mouse button 1 (usually the left button) will start selection.
Releasing the button 1 will end the selection process.
Pressing mouse button 1 (usually the left button) will start selection.
Releasing button 1 will end the selection process.
The selected text will be marked by inverting foreground and
background colors.
You can press the button 3 (usually the right button) to extend
You can press button 3 (usually the right button) to extend
the selected region.
The selected text is placed in the copy buffer and can be pasted
at the cursor position by your pressing the button 2 (usually the
at the cursor position by pressing button 2 (usually the
middle button) as many times as you like.
.Pp
If your mouse has only two buttons, you may want to use the
.Dv SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE
option below to make the right button to paste the text.
Alternatively you can make the mouse daemon
to emulate the middle button.
emulate the middle button.
See the man page for
.Xr moused 8
for more details.
@ -212,33 +212,35 @@ for more details.
The
.Nm
driver allows the user to browse the output which has ``scrolled off''
from the top of the screen.
the top of the screen.
.Pp
Press the ``slock'' key (usually
.Dv ScrllLock
and/or
/
.Dv Scroll Lock
or
.Dv Pause
keys on many AT Enhanced keyboards) and the terminal is
in the ``back scrolling'' mode.
on many keyboards) and the terminal is
in the ``scrollback'' mode.
It is indicated by the
.Dv Scroll Lock
LED.
Use arrow keys,
Use the arrow keys, the
.Dv Page Up/Down
keys and
keys and the
.Dv Home/End
keys to scroll buffered terminal output.
Press the ``slock'' key again to get back to the normal terminal mode.
.Pp
The size of the back-scroll buffer can be set by the
The size of the scrollback buffer can be set by the
.Dv SC_HISTORY_SIZE
option below.
option described below.
.Ss Screen Saver
The
.Nm
driver can be made to put up the screen saver if the current
virtual terminal is idle, that is, the user is not typing
on the keyboard nor moving mouse.
on the keyboard nor moving the mouse.
See
.Xr splash 4
and
@ -257,8 +259,8 @@ The default value is 16.
.It Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
This option selects the alternative way of displaying the mouse cursor
in the virtual terminal.
It may be vastly costly for some video cards to draw the arrow-shaped
cursor and you may want to try this option.
It may be expensive for some video cards to draw the arrow-shaped
cursor, and you may want to try this option.
However, the appearance of the alternative mouse cursor may not be
very appealing.
Note that if you use the
@ -277,12 +279,12 @@ when copying data into cut buffer.
This might be useful to preserve
indentation when copying tab-indented text.
.It Dv SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY
This option disables the ``debug'' key (by default, it is
This option disables the ``debug'' key combination (by default, it is
.Dv Alt-Esc ,
or
.Dv Ctl-PrintScreen ) .
It will prevent the user from
entering the kernel debugger DDB by pressing the key combination.
It will prevent users from
entering the kernel debugger (DDB) by pressing the key combination.
DDB will still be invoked when the kernel panics or hits a break point
if it is included in the kernel.
.It Dv SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
@ -298,7 +300,6 @@ The default value is 100.
Unless the
.Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
option above is specified, the
The
.Nm
driver reserves four consecutive character codes in order to display the
mouse cursor in the virtual terminals in some systems.
@ -338,8 +339,8 @@ cp866 and cp866u.
16-line, 14-line and 8-line font data will be compiled in.
Without this option, the
.Nm
driver will use whatever font already loaded in the video card,
unless you explicitly load software font at startup.
driver will use whatever font is already loaded in the video card,
unless you explicitly load a software font at startup.
See
.Sx EXAMPLES
below.
@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ terminals.
.It Dv SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
The
.Nm
driver can load software font on some video cards.
driver can load software fonts on some video cards.
This option removes this feature.
Note that if you still wish to use
the mouse with this option then you must also use the
@ -404,7 +405,7 @@ or else at the loader prompt (see
.\"This option suppresses the bell, whether audible or visual,
.\"if it is rung in a background virtual terminal.
.It 0x0080 (VESA800X600)
This option puts the video card in the VESA 800x600 dots, 16 color
This option puts the video card in the VESA 800x600 pixel, 16 color
mode.
It may be useful for laptop computers for which the 800x600 mode
is otherwise unsupported by the X server.
@ -498,7 +499,7 @@ to the kernel.
.Pp
.\".Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Sh CAVEATS
Amount of data that is possible to insert from the cut buffer is limited
The Amount of data that is possible to insert from the cut buffer is limited
by the
.Brq Dv MAX_INPUT ,
a system limit on the number of bytes that may be stored in the terminal