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.\" 15.Dd May 22, 1994 16.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 17.Os 18.Sh NAME 19.Nm vidcontrol 20.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver. 21.Sh SYNOPSIS 22.Nm 23.Ar options ... 24.Sh DESCRIPTION 25The 26.Nm vidcontrol 27command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver, 28such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout. 29.Pp 30A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to 31.Nm vidcontrol . 32For example: 33.Bd -literal 34vidcontrol VGA_80x25 35.Ed 36.Pp 37The modes currently supported: 38.Ar VGA_40x25 , 39.Ar VGA_80x25 , 40.Ar VGA_80x50 , 41.Ar EGA_80x25 , 42.Ar EGA_80x43 . 43On some laptops the modes 44.Ar VGA_80x30 45and 46.Ar VGA_80x60 47can be used. 48The graphic mode 49.Ar VGA_320x200 50can also be chosen. 51.Pp 52The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the 53foreground color (e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background 54color (e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue"). 55.Pp 56To see the supported colors on a given platform use "vidcontrol show". 57.Pp 58The following command line options are supported: 59.Bl -tag -width Fl 60.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background 61Change reverse mode colors to 62.Ar foreground 63and 64.Ar background 65.It Fl b Ar color 66Set border color to 67.Ar color 68(only supported on VGA hardware). 69.It Fl c Ar normal|blink|destructive 70Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block 71(normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor 72(destructive). The latter is actually a simulation. 73.It Fl d 74Print out current screen output map. 75.It Fl l Ar scrmap 76Install screen output map file from 77.Ar scrmap 78.It Fl L 79Install default screen output map. 80.It Fl m Ar on|off 81Switches the mousepointer on or off. Used together with the moused 82daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality. 83.It Fl f Ar size Ar file 84Load font 85.Ar file 86for 87.Ar size 88(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16). 89The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. 90.It Fl s Ar Number 91Sets the current vty to 92.Ar Number . 93.It Fl t Ar N|off 94Sets the screensaver timeout to 95.Ar N 96seconds, or turns it 97.Ar off . 98.It Fl x 99Use hexadecimal digits for output. 100.El 101.Sh FILES 102.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps -compact 103.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts 104.It Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps 105.El 106.Sh SEE ALSO 107.Xr kbdcontrol 1 , 108.Xr keyboard 4 , 109.Xr screen 4 110.Sh AUTHORS 111S�ren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) 112