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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\"
.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: vidcontrol.1,v 1.11 1997/07/24 23:46:35 wosch Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 22, 1994
.Dt VIDCONTROL 1
@@ -21,21 +21,30 @@
.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Ar options ...
+.Op Fl r Ar fg Ar bg
+.Op Fl b Ar color
+.Op Fl c Ar appearance
+.Op Fl d
+.Op Fl l Ar scrmap
+.Op Fl L
+.Op Fl m Ar on|off
+.Op Fl f Ar size Ar file
+.Op Fl s Ar number
+.Op Fl t Ar N|off
+.Op Fl x
+.Op mode
+.Op fgcol Op bgcol
+.Op show
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
-.Nm vidcontrol
+.Nm
command is used to set various options for the syscons video driver,
such as video mode, colors, cursors, scrnmaps, font and screensaver timeout.
.Pp
-A new video mode is selected by specifying its name as an argument to
-.Nm vidcontrol .
-For example:
-.Bd -literal
-vidcontrol VGA_80x25
-.Ed
-.Pp
-The modes currently supported:
+The following command line options are supported:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It mode
+Select a new video mode. The modes currently supported are:
.Ar VGA_40x25 ,
.Ar VGA_80x25 ,
.Ar VGA_80x50 ,
@@ -49,20 +58,17 @@ can be used.
The graphic mode
.Ar VGA_320x200
can also be chosen.
-.Pp
-The colors used when displaying text can be changed by specifying the
-foreground color (e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background
-color (e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue").
-.Pp
-To see the supported colors on a given platform use "vidcontrol show".
-.Pp
-The following command line options are supported:
-.Bl -tag -width Fl
+.It fgcol Op bgcol
+Change colors when displaying text. Specify the foreground color
+(e.g. "vidcontrol white"), or both a foreground & background color
+(e.g. "vidcontrol yellow blue").
+.It show
+See the supported colors on a given platform.
.It Fl r Ar foreground Ar background
Change reverse mode colors to
.Ar foreground
and
-.Ar background
+.Ar background .
.It Fl b Ar color
Set border color to
.Ar color
@@ -79,7 +85,11 @@ Install screen output map file from
.It Fl L
Install default screen output map.
.It Fl m Ar on|off
-Switches the mousepointer on or off. Used together with the moused
+Switch the mousepointer
+.Ar on
+or
+.Ar off .
+Used together with the moused
daemon for textmode cut & paste functionality.
.It Fl f Ar size Ar file
Load font
@@ -87,12 +97,12 @@ Load font
for
.Ar size
(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16).
-The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
-.It Fl s Ar Number
-Sets the current vty to
-.Ar Number .
+The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format.
+.It Fl s Ar number
+Set the current vty to
+.Ar number .
.It Fl t Ar N|off
-Sets the screensaver timeout to
+Set the screensaver timeout to
.Ar N
seconds, or turns it
.Ar off .
@@ -110,4 +120,4 @@ Use hexadecimal digits for output.
.Xr screen 4 ,
.Xr moused 8
.Sh AUTHORS
-Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org)
+.An Søren Schmidt Aq sos@FreeBSD.org
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