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| 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 | 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.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 92891 2002-03-21 20:10:10Z bmah $ | 14.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 95127 2002-04-20 12:27:18Z charnier $ |
| 15.\" 16.Dd May 27, 2001 17.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm vidcontrol 21.Nd system console control and configuration utility 22.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 166 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 189or 190.Cm off . 191Used together with the 192.Xr moused 8 193daemon for text mode cut & paste functionality. 194.It Fl p 195Capture the current contents of the video buffer corresponding 196to the terminal device referred to by standard input. | 15.\" 16.Dd May 27, 2001 17.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm vidcontrol 21.Nd system console control and configuration utility 22.Sh SYNOPSIS --- 166 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 189or 190.Cm off . 191Used together with the 192.Xr moused 8 193daemon for text mode cut & paste functionality. 194.It Fl p 195Capture the current contents of the video buffer corresponding 196to the terminal device referred to by standard input. |
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| 198writes contents of the video buffer to the standard | 199utility writes contents of the video buffer to the standard |
| 199output in a raw binary format. 200For details about that 201format see 202.Sx Format of Video Buffer Dump 203below. 204.It Fl P 205Same as 206.Fl p , --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 281.Ss Format of Video Buffer Dump 282The 283.Nm 284utility uses the 285.Xr syscons 4 286.Dv CONS_SCRSHOT 287.Xr ioctl 2 288to capture the current contents of the video buffer. | 200output in a raw binary format. 201For details about that 202format see 203.Sx Format of Video Buffer Dump 204below. 205.It Fl P 206Same as 207.Fl p , --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 282.Ss Format of Video Buffer Dump 283The 284.Nm 285utility uses the 286.Xr syscons 4 287.Dv CONS_SCRSHOT 288.Xr ioctl 2 289to capture the current contents of the video buffer. |
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| 290writes version and additional information to the standard | 292utility writes version and additional information to the standard |
| 291output, followed by the contents of the terminal device. 292.Pp 293VGA video memory is typically arranged in two byte tuples, 294one per character position. 295In each tuple, the first byte will be the character code, 296and the second byte is the character's color attribute. 297.Pp 298The VGA color attribute byte looks like this: --- 212 unchanged lines hidden --- | 293output, followed by the contents of the terminal device. 294.Pp 295VGA video memory is typically arranged in two byte tuples, 296one per character position. 297In each tuple, the first byte will be the character code, 298and the second byte is the character's color attribute. 299.Pp 300The VGA color attribute byte looks like this: --- 212 unchanged lines hidden --- |