vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver

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@(#)vidcontrol.1

vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver. vidcontrol [options] The vidcontrol command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver, such as video mode, colors, cursor, scrnmaps, font, screensaver type and timeout. A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to vidcontrol eg. " vidcontrol 80x25 ". The modes currently supported: 80x25 and 80x50 text. The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the foreground color (eg. " vidcontrol white "), or both a foreground & background color (eg. " vidcontrol yellow blue "). To see the supported colors on a given platform use " vidcontrol show ".

The following command line options are supported.

"-r " foreground background Change reverse mode colors to foreground and background .

"-b " color Set border color to color (only supported on VGA hardware):

"-c " start.end Change the cursor apperance. The cursor is changed to a shape that starts on scanline start and ends on scanline end .

"-l " scrmap Install screen output map file from scrmap

"-L " Install default screen output map.

"-f " size file Load font file for size (currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16). The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.

"-t " N|off Sets the screensaver timeout to N seconds, or turns it off

"-s " NAME|help Sets the screensaver appearance to NAME . Use -s help to print a list of the available screen savers.

/usr/share/syscons/fonts /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps Report when found. kbdcontrol(1) , keyboard (4) , screen (4) , /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS S�ren Schmidt (sos@login.dkuug.dk)