From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 03:43:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D93416A4DE for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:43:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA2B43D5D for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:43:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1785420wxd for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:43:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FDIeWg94SnTGaKyMAEOO3G4zn3FmQfPrg/2U7ZdG9i3qC6XePYfIcAG6PLnUHjt8cw9vH2+NfHuBWlmiGYrJUOBsnRUQx7QVsvpz0RcoFdWUhOO9GQspXJaJwBmTwnqplVe2gjbfuHf0+1T9QRmfnKWr3SrZqLVuIRHdtoN8fKo= Received: by 10.70.69.11 with SMTP id r11mr10790041wxa; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:43:52 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: perikillo In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44E8F83B.4050503@ez.pereslavl.ru> <51d7a5160608210927l71a51629k46af50e8117ed8ad@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Add colored border around console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:43:54 -0000 On 8/21/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/21/06, perikillo wrote: > > On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov wrote: > > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > What I want is the colored border around the console window... I have > > > > no clue how to do it, /dev/random made the border you see the photo! I > > > > let it run all night to generate interrupt load as part of a system > > > > stress test. > > > I think you need to use "vidcontrol". So "man vidcontrol" and look for > > > "-b" option. > > > > > > > I have this: > > > > /etc/rc.conf > > > > allscreens_flags="-f 8x8 iso-8x8 -b red -mode 80x60 green black" > > > > Just check which video modes support your video adapter, some video > > cards that i have been using dosent support this settings. > > > > Thanks. -b doesn't work, which is weird because this is the same > system that /dev/random made the border on. I also wanted each side > of the border to be a different color... like the one you see in the > photo. What I really want is to duplicate what was in the photo. > > What about gettytab? > > Right here: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/IMG_5500-2.png The top border is gettytab the other side(s) are 'vidcontrol -b green', the rest is photoshop'ed. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/