1.\" 2.\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1 14.\" $Id$ 15.\" 16.Dd May 22, 1994 17.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm vidcontrol 21.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver. 22.Sh SYNOPSIS 23.Nm 24.Ar options ... 25.Sh DESCRIPTION 26The 27.Nm vidcontrol 28command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver, 29such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout. 30.Pp 31A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to 32.Nm vidcontrol . 33For example: 34.Bd -literal 35vidcontrol VGA_80x25 36.Ed 37.Pp 38The modes currently supported: 39.Ar VGA_40x25 , 40.Ar VGA_80x25 , 41.Ar VGA_80x50 , 42.Ar EGA_80x25 , 43.Ar EGA_80x43 . 44On some laptops the modes 45.Ar VGA_80x30 46and 47.Ar VGA_80x60 48can be used. 49The graphic mode 50.Ar VGA_320x200 51can also be chosen. 52.Pp 53The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the 54foreground color (e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background 55color (e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue"). 56.Pp 57To see the supported colors on a given platform use "vidcontrol show". 58.Pp 59The following command line options are supported: 60.Bl -tag -width Fl 61.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background 62Change reverse mode colors to 63.Ar foreground 64and 65.Ar background 66.It Fl b Ar color 67Set border color to 68.Ar color 69(only supported on VGA hardware). 70.It Fl c Ar normal|blink|destructive 71Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block 72(normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor 73(destructive). The latter is actually a simulation. 74.It Fl d 75Print out current screen output map. 76.It Fl l Ar scrmap 77Install screen output map file from 78.Ar scrmap 79.It Fl L 80Install default screen output map. 81.It Fl m Ar on|off 82Switches the mousepointer on or off. Used together with the moused 83daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality. 84.It Fl f Ar size Ar file 85Load font 86.Ar file 87for 88.Ar size 89(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16). 90The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. 91.It Fl s Ar Number 92Sets the current vty to 93.Ar Number . 94.It Fl t Ar N|off 95Sets the screensaver timeout to 96.Ar N 97seconds, or turns it 98.Ar off . 99.It Fl x 100Use hexadecimal digits for output. 101.El 102.Sh FILES 103.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact 104.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts 105.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps 106.El 107.Sh SEE ALSO 108.Xr kbdcontrol 1 , 109.Xr keyboard 4 , 110.Xr screen 4 , 111.Xr moused 8 112.Sh AUTHORS 113S�ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) 114