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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 74898 2001-03-28 02:32:10Z dd $ | 14.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 75344 2001-04-09 17:24:29Z sobomax $ |
| 15.\" 16.Dd June 30, 1999 17.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm vidcontrol 21.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons console driver. 22.Sh SYNOPSIS 23.Nm 24.Op Fl b Ar color 25.Op Fl c Ar appearance 26.Op Fl d | 15.\" 16.Dd June 30, 1999 17.Dt VIDCONTROL 1 18.Os 19.Sh NAME 20.Nm vidcontrol 21.Nd a utility for manipulating the syscons console driver. 22.Sh SYNOPSIS 23.Nm 24.Op Fl b Ar color 25.Op Fl c Ar appearance 26.Op Fl d |
| 27.Op Fl f Ar size Ar file | 27.Op Fl f Oo Ar size Oc Ar \ file |
| 28.Op Fl g Ar geometry 29.Op Fl i Cm adapter | mode 30.Op Fl l Ar screen_map 31.Op Fl L 32.Op Fl M Ar char 33.Op Fl m Cm on | off 34.Op Fl r Ar foreground Ar background 35.Op Fl s Ar number --- 101 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 137.It Fl m Cm on | off 138Switch the mouse pointer 139.Cm on 140or 141.Cm off . 142Used together with the 143.Xr moused 8 144daemon for text mode cut & paste functionality. | 28.Op Fl g Ar geometry 29.Op Fl i Cm adapter | mode 30.Op Fl l Ar screen_map 31.Op Fl L 32.Op Fl M Ar char 33.Op Fl m Cm on | off 34.Op Fl r Ar foreground Ar background 35.Op Fl s Ar number --- 101 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 137.It Fl m Cm on | off 138Switch the mouse pointer 139.Cm on 140or 141.Cm off . 142Used together with the 143.Xr moused 8 144daemon for text mode cut & paste functionality. |
| 145.It Fl f Ar size Ar file | 145.It Fl f [ Ar size ] Ar file |
| 146Load font 147.Ar file 148for 149.Ar size 150(currently, only 151.Cm 8x8 , 152.Cm 8x14 153or 154.Cm 8x16 ) . 155The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. 156You can also use the menu-driven 157.Xr vidfont 1 158command to load the font of your choice. 159.Pp | 146Load font 147.Ar file 148for 149.Ar size 150(currently, only 151.Cm 8x8 , 152.Cm 8x14 153or 154.Cm 8x16 ) . 155The font file can be either uuencoded or in raw binary format. 156You can also use the menu-driven 157.Xr vidfont 1 158command to load the font of your choice. 159.Pp |
| 160.Ar Size 161may be omitted, in this case 162.Nm 163will try to guess it from the size of font file. 164.Pp |
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| 160Note that older video cards, such as MDA and CGA, do not support 161software font. 162See also 163.Sx Video Mode Support 164and 165.Sx EXAMPLES 166below and the man page for 167.Xr syscons 4 . --- 123 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 291.Pp 292So long as the font file is in 293.Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts , 294you may abbreviate the file name as 295.Pa iso-8x16 : 296.Pp 297.Dl vidcontrol -f 8x16 iso-8x16 298.Pp | 165Note that older video cards, such as MDA and CGA, do not support 166software font. 167See also 168.Sx Video Mode Support 169and 170.Sx EXAMPLES 171below and the man page for 172.Xr syscons 4 . --- 123 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 296.Pp 297So long as the font file is in 298.Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts , 299you may abbreviate the file name as 300.Pa iso-8x16 : 301.Pp 302.Dl vidcontrol -f 8x16 iso-8x16 303.Pp |
| 304Furthermore, you can also omit font size 305.Dq 8x16 : 306.Pp 307.Dl vidcontrol -f iso-8x16 308.Pp |
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| 299Likewise, you can also abbreviate the screen output map file name for 300the 301.Fl l 302option if the file is found in 303.Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps . 304.Pp 305.Dl vidcontrol -l iso-8859-1_to_cp437 306.Pp --- 19 unchanged lines hidden --- | 309Likewise, you can also abbreviate the screen output map file name for 310the 311.Fl l 312option if the file is found in 313.Pa /usr/share/syscons/scrnmaps . 314.Pp 315.Dl vidcontrol -l iso-8859-1_to_cp437 316.Pp --- 19 unchanged lines hidden --- |