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diff --git a/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 b/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bc0af0 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +.\" +.\" vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" @(#)vidcontrol.1 +.\" +.TH vidcontrol 1 "May 22, 1994" "" "FreeBSD" + +.SH NAME +vidcontrol - a utility for manipulating the syscons video driver. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.na +.B vidcontrol +.RB [options] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B 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 +.B vidcontrol +eg. " +.B 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. " +.B vidcontrol white +"), or both a foreground & background +color (eg. " +.B vidcontrol yellow blue +"). + +To see the supported colors on a given platform use " +.B vidcontrol show +". + +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +The following command line options are supported. +.TP +.BI "\-r\ " foreground\ background +Change reverse mode colors to +.B foreground +and +.B background +. +.TP +.BI "\-b\ " color +Set border color to +.B color +(only supported on VGA hardware): +.TP +.BI "\-c\ " start.end +Change the cursor apperance. The cursor is changed to a shape that starts +on scanline +.B start +and ends on scanline +.B end +. +.TP +.BI "\-l\ " scrmap +Install screen output map file from +.I scrmap +.TP +.BI "\-L\ " +Install default screen output map. +.TP +.BI "\-f\ " size\ file +Load font +.I file +for +.I size +(currently, only 8x8, 8x14 or 8x16). +The fontfile can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. +.TP +.BI "\-t\ " N|off +Sets the screensaver timeout to +.I N +seconds, or turns it +.I off +.TP +.BI "\-s\ " NAME|help +Sets the screensaver appearance to +.I NAME . +Use \-s help to print a list of the available screen savers. +.PP +.SH FILES +/usr/share/syscons/fonts +/usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps +.SH BUGS +Report when found. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR kbdcontrol(1) , +.BR keyboard (4) , +.BR screen (4) , +.BR /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS +.SH AUTHORS +Søren Schmidt (sos@login.dkuug.dk) + |