Fixed usage() (cosmetic changes. "(string)" looks much better
than "(string" :-)

Added new choises of cursors.

Added 80x30 & 80x60 experimental modes officially.

Third round in syscons update.

Display update method changed, now allways write in memory buffer,
then periodically update physical display.
Speed improvements (now > 5 times faster than the old s

Third round in syscons update.

Display update method changed, now allways write in memory buffer,
then periodically update physical display.
Speed improvements (now > 5 times faster than the old syscons).
History now circular buffer, with changeable size.
History scroll by up/down line, up/down page, home and end.
Backtab proberly implemented.
Now space for 96 function keys, 63 allocated standard, default now
SCO/SYSV compat again as in the old days.
New keyboard definition files ~share/syscons/keymaps/*
Misc fixes for old "hacks" that broke SCO/SYSV compat.
More that I forgot before writing this...

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First round in syscons update. Several new features has been added:

No kernel config options anymore besides keyboard language layout.
Virtual consoles are now dynamically allocated, no NCONS anymor

First round in syscons update. Several new features has been added:

No kernel config options anymore besides keyboard language layout.
Virtual consoles are now dynamically allocated, no NCONS anymore.
Software cursor blinking/nonblinking.
Visual bell for laptops (don't beep at meetings :-).
Cursor/bell default type setable via config "flags" instead of as defines.
Cursor/bell type setable via ioctl's.
New video modes 80x30 80x60 for some laptops, and those with multisync monitors.
Scroll-lock history (length currently fixed at 100 lines).
Lots of cleanups, some only commented out for now (will goaway soon).
Support for new features in vidcontrol/kbdcontrol.
Updated manpages.

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usage help: uncomment -d option, add -x option

Added support for some of the new video modes in syscons.

Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:

Added vidcontrol util from 1.1.5.1+

Reviewed by:
Submitted by:

Print memory model of the video mode except for planar memory model.
'P', 'D', 'C', 'H', 'V' mean packed pixel, direct color, CGA, Hercules,
VGA X memory models respectively where they have fixed num

Print memory model of the video mode except for planar memory model.
'P', 'D', 'C', 'H', 'V' mean packed pixel, direct color, CGA, Hercules,
VGA X memory models respectively where they have fixed number of planes.

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MFC @199204

Add a new flag to vidcontrol, -T, that allows terminal mode switching.

This will make it more easy for people to experiment with TERM=xterm.
Instead of echoing these strange escape sequences, I can

Add a new flag to vidcontrol, -T, that allows terminal mode switching.

This will make it more easy for people to experiment with TERM=xterm.
Instead of echoing these strange escape sequences, I can just instruct
them to run `vidcontrol -T xterm'.

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Remove bogus casts of valid integer ioctl() arguments.

Fix so that color changes are not lost when the video mode changes.

PR: bin/83553
Submitted by: Dan Lukes <dan at obluda dot cz>

Add VESA mode support for syscons, which enables the support of 15, 16,
24, and 32 bit modes. To use that, syscons(4) must be built with
the compile time option 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE', and VESA sup

Add VESA mode support for syscons, which enables the support of 15, 16,
24, and 32 bit modes. To use that, syscons(4) must be built with
the compile time option 'options SC_PIXEL_MODE', and VESA support (a.k.a.
vesa.ko) must be either loaded, or be compiled into the kernel.

Do not return EINVAL when the mouse state is changed to what it already is,
which seems to cause problems when you have two mice attached, and
applications are not likely obtain useful information through the EINVAL
caused by showing the mouse pointer twice.

Teach vidcontrol(8) about mode names like MODE_<NUMBER>, where <NUMBER> is
the video mode number from the vidcontrol -i mode output. Also, revert the
video mode if something fails.

Obtained from: DragonFlyBSD
Discussed at: current@ with patch attached [1]
PR: kern/71142 [2]
Submitted by: Xuefeng DENG <dsnofe at msn com> [1],
Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille dot lefevre at laposte dot net> [2]

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Use \033 instead of \e because \e is not a standard.

Noticed by: stefanf
Reviewed by: diff(1)

A foreground color number on pc98 console is 7 not 15.

Use \e for escape char instead of ^[ directly.

WANRS=6 cleanup for vidcontrol(1):
- Use foo(void) instead of foo().
- Use static where applicable.
- Apply more const's when passing parameters
- signed/unsigned madness
- Avoid namespace colli

WANRS=6 cleanup for vidcontrol(1):
- Use foo(void) instead of foo().
- Use static where applicable.
- Apply more const's when passing parameters
- signed/unsigned madness
- Avoid namespace collision by adding underscores.
- For 64-bit architectures, use %zx instead of %x
when necessary.
- When storing constants, use const instead of
variable.
- Bump WARNS?= from 2 to 6

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Propagate ioctl() failure to exit status

Add a new `-H' modifier, which when combined with `-p' or `-P' allows to dump
full console history.

Remove some missing words.

Submitted by: roam

Deuglify the usage message by making it look more like the synopsis in
the manual page.

Add an -S option that allows the user to disable vty switching. It is
implemented using a new VT_LOCKSWITCH ioctl. Although it is possible
to implement something like this by VT_SETMODEing to VT_PR

Add an -S option that allows the user to disable vty switching. It is
implemented using a new VT_LOCKSWITCH ioctl. Although it is possible
to implement something like this by VT_SETMODEing to VT_PROCESS and
never releasing the vty, that method has a number of downsides, the
biggest of which is that some program has to stay resident for the
lock to be in effect.

Reviewed by: roam, sheldonh

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Fix typo in the BSD copyright: s/withough/without/

Spotted and suggested by: des
MFC after: 3 weeks

When loading a font allow suffix specifying its size be omited, in which
case use size of the currently displaying font as a suffix. For example,
when the when the size of the currently displayed fon

When loading a font allow suffix specifying its size be omited, in which
case use size of the currently displaying font as a suffix. For example,
when the when the size of the currently displayed font is 8x8 the
following command will load koi8-r-8x8.fnt.

# vidcontrol -f koi8-r

MFC after: 2 weeks

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