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.\"
.\" @(#)kbdcontrol.1
.\"
.Dd May 22, 1994
.Dt kbdcontrol 1
.Dd June 30, 1999
.Dt KBDCONTROL 1
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm kbdcontrol
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons keyboard driver section
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons console driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl dFx
.Op Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar [quiet.]belltype
.Op Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar belltype
.Op Fl r Ar delay.repeat | Ar speed
.Op Fl l Ar mapfile
.Op Fl l Ar keymap_file
.Op Fl f Ar # Ar string
.Op Fl h Ar size
.Op Fl L Ar mapfile
.Op Fl L Ar keymap_file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command is used to set various keyboard related options for the syscons
console driver, such as keymap, keyboard repeat & delay rates, bell
command is used to set various keyboard related options for the
.Xr syscons 4
console driver and the keyboard drivers,
such as key map, keyboard repeat and delay rates, bell
characteristics etc.
.Pp
Keyboard options may be automatically configured at system boot time by
setting variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
See
.Sx Boot Time Configuration
below.
.Pp
The following command line options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar [quiet.]belltype
Set the bell duration in miliseconds and pitch in hertz.
.It Fl b Ar duration.pitch | Ar belltype
Set the bell duration in milliseconds and pitch in hertz.
If a
.Ar belltype
argument is specified, it may be one of
.Ar normal
.Cm normal
which set sound parameters back to normal values, or
.Ar visual
.Cm visual
which set the bell to visual mode, i.e. flashes the screen instead.
If
.Ar belltype
is preceded by the word
.Ar quiet. ,
.Cm quiet. ,
the bell will not be rung when the ringing process is in the background vty.
.It Fl r Ar delay.repeat | Ar speed
Set keyboard
@ -60,24 +69,33 @@ and
rates, or if a
.Ar speed
argument is specified, it may be one of
.Ar slow
.Cm slow
(1000.504),
.Ar fast
.Cm fast
(250.34)
or
.Ar normal
.Cm normal
(500.126).
.It Fl l Ar mapfile
.It Fl l Ar keymap_file
Install keyboard map file from
.Ar mapfile .
.Ar keymap_file .
You may load the keyboard map file from a menu-driven command,
.Xr kbdmap 1 .
.It Fl d
Dump the current keyboard map onto stdout.
The output may be redirected to a file and can be loaded
back to the kernel later by the
.Fl l
option above.
.It Fl f Ar # Ar string
.BI "\-f\ " #\ string
.\".BI "\-f\ " #\ string
Set function key number
.Ar #
to send
.Ar string .
Refer to the man page for the keyboard driver
.Pq e.g. Xr atkbd 4
for available function keys and their numbers.
.It Fl F
Set function keys back to the standard definitions.
.It Fl x
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Set history buffer size to
.Ar size
lines.
.It Fl L Ar mapfile
.It Fl L Ar keymap_file
Load keyboard map file from
.Ar mapfile
.Ar keymap_file
and write the
.Ft "struct keymap"
compiled from it to stdout.
This option is primarily intended for programmers and is probably
of little use under normal circumstances.
.El
.Sh KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION
.Ss Boot Time Configuration
You may set variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
or
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
in order to configure the keyboard at boot time.
The following is the list of relevant variables.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width foo_bar_var -compact
.It Ar keymap
Specifies a keyboard map file for the
.Fl l
option.
.It Ar keyrate
Sets the keyboard repeat rate for the
.Fl r
option.
.It Ar keychange
Lists function key strings for the
.Fl f
option.
.El
.Pp
See
.Xr rc.conf 5
for details.
.Ss Driver Configuration
The keyboard device driver may let you change default configuration
options, such as the default keyboard map, so that you do not need to set up
the options at boot time.
See keyboard driver manuals
.Pq e.g. Xr atkbd 4 , Xr ukbd 4
for details.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/keymaps -compact
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps
.Sh "BUGS"
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/foo_bar -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/*
keyboard map files.
.Sh EXAMPLE
The following command will load the keyboard map file
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ru.koi8-r.kbd .
.Pp
.Dl kbdcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ru.koi8-r.kbd
.Pp
So long as the keyboard map file resides in
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/keymaps ,
you may abbreviate the file name as
.Pa ru.koi8-r .
.Pp
.Dl kbdcontrol -l ru.koi8-r
.Pp
The following command will make the function key 10 emit "telnet myhost".
.Pp
.Dl kbdcontrol -f 10 \&"telnet myhost\&"
.Pp
In order to get the visual effect for bell, but prevent the screen
from flushing if the bell is to ring in the background screen,
run the following command.
.Pp
.Dl kbdcontrol -b quiet.visual
.Pp
.Sh BUGS
Report when found.
.Sh "SEE ALSO"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kbdmap 1 ,
.Xr vidcontrol 1 ,
.Xr atkbd 4 ,
.Xr keyboard 4 ,
.Xr screen 4
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr syscons 4 ,
.Xr ukbd 4 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Søren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org

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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\"
.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1
.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.15 1999/04/08 13:51:54 ghelmer Exp $
.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.16 1999/06/03 12:44:16 yokota Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 22, 1994
.Dd June 30, 1999
.Dt VIDCONTROL 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm vidcontrol
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons console 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 i Ar adapter|mode
.Op Fl l Ar scrmap
.Op Fl L
.Op Fl m Ar on|off
.Op Fl f Ar size Ar file
.Op Fl i Cm adapter | mode
.Op Fl l Ar screen_map
.Op Fl L
.Op Fl m Cm on | off
.Op Fl r Ar foreground Ar background
.Op Fl s Ar number
.Op Fl t Ar N|off
.Op Fl t Ar N | Cm off
.Op Fl x
.Op mode
.Op fgcol Op bgcol
.Op show
.Op Ar mode
.Op Ar foreground Op Ar background
.Op Cm 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.
command is used to set various options for the
.Xr syscons 4
console driver,
such as video mode, colors, cursor shape, screen output map, font and screen
saver timeout.
.Pp
The following command line options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It mode
.It Ar mode
Select a new video mode. The modes currently recognized are:
.Ar 40x25 ,
.Ar 80x25 ,
@ -79,58 +82,85 @@ can also be chosen.
See
.Sx Video Mode Support
below.
.It fgcol Op bgcol
.It Ar foreground Op Ar background
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
(e.g. ``vidcontrol white''), or both a foreground and background colors
(e.g. ``vidcontrol yellow blue'').
Use the
.Cm show
command below to see available colors.
.It Cm show
See the supported colors on a given platform.
.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background
.It Fl r Ar foreground 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
.Ar color .
This option may not be always supported by the video driver.
.It Fl c Cm 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.
.Pq Cm normal
that eventually can
.Cm blink .
Or it can be like the old hardware cursor
.Pq Cm destructive .
The latter is actually a simulation.
.It Fl d
Print out current screen output map.
.It Fl l Ar scrmap
Print out current output screen map.
.It Fl l Ar screen_map
Install screen output map file from
.Ar scrmap
.Ar screen_map
See also
.Xr syscons 4 .
.It Fl L
Install default screen output map.
.It Fl i Ar adapter
Shows info about the current videoadapter.
.It Fl i Ar mode
Shows the possible videomodes with the current video hardware.
.It Fl m Ar on|off
Switch the mousepointer
.Ar on
.It Fl i Cm adapter
Shows info about the current video adapter.
.It Fl i Cm mode
Shows the possible video modes with the current video hardware.
.It Fl m Cm on | off
Switch the mouse pointer
.Cm on
or
.Ar off .
Used together with the moused
daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.
.Cm off .
Used together with the
.Xr moused 8
daemon for text mode cut & paste functionality.
.It Fl f Ar size Ar file
Load font
.Ar file
for
.Ar size
(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
(currently, only
.Cm 8x8 ,
.Cm 8x14
or
.Cm 8x16
).
The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
You can also use the menu-driven
.Xr vidfont 1
command to load the font of your choice.
.Pp
Note that older video cards, such as MDA and CGA, do not support
software font.
See also
.Sx Video Mode Support
and
.Sx EXAMPLE
below and the man page for
.Xr syscons 4 .
.It Fl s Ar number
Set the current vty to
.Ar number .
.It Fl t Ar N|off
.It Fl t Ar N | Cm off
Set the screensaver timeout to
.Ar N
seconds, or turns it
.Ar off .
.Cm off .
.It Fl x
Use hexadecimal digits for output.
.El
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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
.Fl i Cm mode
option.
.Pp
The VESA BIOS support must be linked to the kernel
@ -170,25 +200,85 @@ Modes Font size
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
You may set variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
or
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
to the desired font files so that they will be automatically loaded
so that desired font files will be automatically loaded
when the system starts up.
See below.
.Sh VIDEO OUTPUT CONFIGURATION
.Ss Boot Time Configuration
You may set the following variables in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
or
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
in order to configure the video output at boot time.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width foo_bar_var -compact
.It Ar blanktime
Sets the timeout value for the
.Fl t
option.
.It Ar font8x16, font8x14, font8x8
Specifies font files for the
.Fl f
option.
.It Ar scrnmap
Specifies a screen output map file for the
.Fl l
option.
.El
.Pp
See
.Xr rc.conf 5
for more details.
.Ss Driver Configuration
The video card driver may let you change default configuration
options, such as the default font, so that you do not need to set up
the options at boot time.
See video card driver manuals,
.Pq e.g. Xr vga 4
for details.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps/foo-bar -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts/*
font files.
.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps/*
screen output map files.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLE
If you want to load
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt
to the kernel, run
.Nm
as:
.Pp
.Dl vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x16.fnt
.Pp
So long as the font file is in
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts ,
you may abbreviate the file name as
.Pa iso-8x16 :
.Pp
.Dl vidcontrol -f 8x16 iso-8x16
.Pp
Likewise, you can also abbreviate the screen output map file name for
the
.Fl l
option if the file is found in
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps .
.Pp
.Dl vidcontrol -l iso-8859-1_to_cp437
.Pp
The above command will load
.Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps/iso-8859-1_to_cp437.scm .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kbdcontrol 1 ,
.Xr keyboard 4 ,
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr syscons 4 ,
.Xr vidfont 1 ,
.Xr vga 4 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
.Xr moused 8