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Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 23:30:01 -0700
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From: Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@localhost.nodak.edu>
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Subject: i386/440: want vidcontrol option to apply settings to all sysconsoles
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>Number:         440
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       want vidcontrol option to apply settings to all sysconsoles
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue May 23 23:30:00 1995
>Originator:     Daniel Ortmann
>Organization:
North Dakota State University
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0.950418-SNAP i386
>Environment:

Kernel and sources rebuilt on:
FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950512 (...) #0: Fri May 12 20:42:36 CDT 1995

>Description:

If vidcontrol could apply color and video modes to all sysconsoles as
well as to just the current console, then /etc/sysconfig could conveniently
set those items.

E.g. I want to do the following from /etc/sysconfig:
vidcontrol brown black
vidcontrol VGA_80x50

A related suggestion would be to update /etc/sysconfig to something like
the following:

# Set foreground and background colors [local addition] (or NO for default)
foreground=brown
background=black

# Set overall video mode [local addition] (or NO for default)
# Don't forget to set the terminal type in /etc/ttys to agree with this.
videomode=VGA_80x50

/etc/rc.386 might also be updated to use it like this:

# foreground and background colors
if [ "X${foreground}" != X"NO" -a "X${background}" != X"NO" ]; then
	echo -n ' colors';	vidcontrol ${foreground} ${background}
fi

# video mode
if [ "X${videomode}" != X"NO" ]; then
	echo -n ' videomode';	vidcontrol ${videomode}
fi

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