Change macros Em -> Dv.

Also removed hard sentence breaks introduced in my last commit.

Suggested by:	sheldonh
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marko 2000-10-03 22:51:27 +00:00
parent 10f7465886
commit 917d66438f
2 changed files with 59 additions and 56 deletions

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@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ By default, only the first eight virtual terminals are activated in
.Pa /etc/ttys .
.Pp
You press the
.Em Alt
.Dv Alt
key and a switch key to switch between
virtual terminals.
The following table summarizes the correspondence between the switch
@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ Alt-F6 ttyv5 Alt-F12 ttyv11 Shift-Alt-F6 ttyv15
.Ed
.Pp
You can also use the ``nscr'' key (usually the
.Em PrintScreen
.Dv PrintScreen
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
.Em MAXCONS
.Dv MAXCONS
(see below).
.Pp
Note that the X server usually requires a virtual terminal for display
@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ when the system starts up.
.Pp
Optionally you can make a particular font file as the default font.
See the
.Em SC_DFLT_FONT
.Dv SC_DFLT_FONT
option below.
.Ss Screen Map
If your video card does not support software font, you may still be able
@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ at the cursor position by your pressing the 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
.Em SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE
.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.
@ -210,23 +210,23 @@ driver allows the user to browse the output which has ``scrolled off''
from the top of the screen.
.Pp
Press the ``slock'' key (usually
.Em ScrllLock
.Dv ScrllLock
and/or
.Em Pause
.Dv Pause
keys on many AT Enhanced keyboards) and the terminal is
in the ``back scrolling'' mode.
It is indicated by the
.Em Scroll Lock
.Dv Scroll Lock
LED.
Use arrow keys,
.Em Page Up/Down
.Dv Page Up/Down
keys and
.Em Home/End
.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
.Em SC_HISTORY_SIZE
.Dv SC_HISTORY_SIZE
option below.
.Ss Screen Saver
The
@ -245,42 +245,43 @@ The following kernel configuration options control the
.Nm
driver.
.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
.It Em MAXCONS=N
.It Dv MAXCONS=N
This option sets the number of virtual terminals to
.Fa N .
The default value is 16.
.It Em SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
.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.
However, the appearance of the alternative mouse cursor may not be
very appealing. Note that if you use the
.Em SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
very appealing.
Note that if you use the
.Dv SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
option then you must also use this option if you wish to be able to use
the mouse.
.It Em SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY
.It Dv SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY
This option disables the ``debug'' key (by default, it is
.Em Alt-Esc ,
.Dv Alt-Esc ,
or
.Em Ctl-PrintScreen
.Dv Ctl-PrintScreen
).
It will prevent the user 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 Em SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
.It Dv SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
This option disables the ``reboot'' key (by default, it is
.Em Ctl-Alt-Del
.Dv Ctl-Alt-Del
), so that the casual user may not accidentally reboot the system.
.It Em SC_HISTORY_SIZE=N
.It Dv SC_HISTORY_SIZE=N
Sets the size of back scroll buffer to
.Fa N
lines.
The default value is 100.
.It Em SC_MOUSE_CHAR=C
.It Dv SC_MOUSE_CHAR=C
Unless the
.Em SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
.Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
option above is specified, the
The
.Nm
@ -291,31 +292,31 @@ This option specifies the first character code to
to be used for this purpose.
The default value is 0xd0.
A good candidate is 0x03.
.It Em SC_PIXEL_MODE
.It Dv SC_PIXEL_MODE
Adds support for pixel (raster) mode console.
This mode is useful on some laptop computers, but less so on
most other systems, and it adds substantial amount of code to syscons.
If the this option is NOT defined, you can reduce the kernel size a lot.
See the
.Em VESA800X600
.Dv VESA800X600
flag below.
.It Em SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE
.It Dv SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE
If you have a two button mouse, you may want to add this option
to use the right button of the mouse to paste text.
See
.Sx Mouse Support and Copy-and-Paste
above.
.It Em SC_NORM_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Em SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Em SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Em SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Dv SC_NORM_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Dv SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Dv SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=_attribute_
.It Dv SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=_attribute_
These options will set the default colors.
Available colors are defined in
.Pa /usr/include/machine/pc/display.h .
See
.Sx EXAMPLE
below.
.It Em SC_DFLT_FONT
.It Dv SC_DFLT_FONT
This option will specify the default font.
Available fonts are: iso, iso2, koi8-r, cp437, cp850, cp865 and cp866.
16-line, 14-line and 8-line font data will be compiled in.
@ -332,21 +333,22 @@ The following options will remove some features from the
.Nm
driver and save kernel memory.
.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
.It Em SC_NO_CUTPASTE
.It Dv SC_NO_CUTPASTE
This option disables ``copy and paste'' operation in virtual
terminals.
.It Em SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
.It Dv SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
The
.Nm
driver can load software font on some video cards.
This option removes this feature. Note that if you still wish to use
This option removes this feature.
Note that if you still wish to use
the mouse with this option then you must also use the
.Em SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
.Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
option.
.It Em SC_NO_HISTORY
.It Dv SC_NO_HISTORY
This option disables back-scrolling in virtual terminals.
.\".It Em SC_NO_PALETTE_LOADING
.It Em SC_NO_SYSMOUSE
.\".It Dv SC_NO_PALETTE_LOADING
.It Dv SC_NO_SYSMOUSE
This option removes mouse support in the
.Nm
driver.
@ -354,7 +356,7 @@ The mouse daemon
.Xr moused 8
will fail if this option is defined.
This option implies the
.Em SC_NO_CUTPASTE
.Dv SC_NO_CUTPASTE
option too.
.El
.Ss Driver Flags
@ -374,13 +376,13 @@ time
.\"This option specifies the cursor appearance.
.\"Possible values are:
.\".Bl -tag -width TYPE -compact
.\".It Em 0
.\".It Dv 0
.\"normal block cursor
.\".It Em 2
.\".It Dv 2
.\"blinking block cursor
.\".It Em 4
.\".It Dv 4
.\"underline cursor
.\".It Em 6
.\".It Dv 6
.\"blinking underline (aka destructive) cursor
.\".El
.\".It bit 6 (QUIET_BELL)
@ -393,7 +395,7 @@ It may be useful for laptop computers for which the 800x600 mode
is otherwise unsupported by the X server.
Note that in order for this flag to work, the kernel must be
compiled with the
.Em SC_PIXEL_MODE
.Dv SC_PIXEL_MODE
option explained above.
.\"Note also that the ``copy-and-paste'' function is not currently supported
.\"in this mode and the mouse pointer will not be displayed.

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@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ The console driver will call the
driver to manipulate video hardware (changing video modes, loading font, etc).
.Pp
The keyword
.Em conflicts
.Dv conflicts
is required, as the video card may use I/O ports in the same range
as other drivers.
.Pp
@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ VESA support can either be statically included in the kernel
or can be loaded as a separate module.
.Pp
In order to statically link the VESA support to the kernel, the
.Em VESA
.Dv VESA
option (see below) must be defined in the kernel configuration file.
.Pp
The
@ -83,15 +83,15 @@ can be used to control the
driver.
These options provide compatibility with certain VGA cards.
.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
.It Em VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
.It Dv VGA_ALT_SEQACCESS
You may want to try this option if the mouse pointer is not drawn correctly
or the font does not seem to be loaded properly on the VGA card.
However, it may cause flicker on some systems.
.It Em VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS
.It Dv VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS
Older VGA cards may require this option for proper operation.
It makes the driver perform byte-wide I/O to VGA registers and
slow down a little.
.It Em VGA_WIDTH90
.It Dv VGA_WIDTH90
This option enables 90 column modes: 90x25, 90x30, 90x43, 90x50, 90x60.
These modes are not always supported by the video card and the display.
It is highly likely that LCD display cannot work with these modes.
@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ It is highly likely that LCD display cannot work with these modes.
.Pp
The following options add optional features to the driver.
.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
.It Em VESA
.It Dv VESA
Add VESA BIOS support to the driver.
If the VGA card has the VESA BIOS extension 1.2 or later,
this option will utilize the VESA BIOS service to switch to high
resolution modes.
.It Em VESA_DEBUG=N
.It Dv VESA_DEBUG=N
Set the VESA support debug level to
.Fa N .
The default value is zero, which suppresses all debugging output.
@ -114,16 +114,17 @@ The following options will remove some features from the
.Nm
driver and save kernel memory.
.Bl -tag -width MOUSE
.It Em VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING
.It Dv VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING
The
.Nm
driver can load software font to EGA and VGA cards.
This option removes this feature. Note that if you use this option and
This option removes this feature.
Note that if you use this option and
still wish to use the mouse on the console then you must also use the
.Em SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
.Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
option. See
.Xr syscons 4 .
.It Em VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE
.It Dv VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE
This option prevents the driver from changing video modes.
.El
.\".Sh FILES
@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ in order to enable the VESA BIOS Extension support.
.Pp
If you do not want VESA support included in the kernel, but
want to use occasionally, do not add the
.Em VESA
.Dv VESA
option. And load the
.Nm vesa
module as desired: