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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:18:25 -0700
From:      "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
To:        perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Add colored border around console?
Message-ID:  <ef10de9a0608211918j3dc009a7w1779a1cc9db2c6fa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51d7a5160608210927l71a51629k46af50e8117ed8ad@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/21/06, perikillo <perikillo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Alexey Mikhailov <karma@ez.pereslavl.ru> 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?


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