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Date:      Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:55:54 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jslivko.org>
To:        W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@pacbell.net>
Cc:        Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nice console
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107012255350.25461-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3B3F9ADE.12352F4B@pacbell.net>

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In X, you can side scroll, it just moves to a new desktop. -- Jonathan

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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, W Gerald Hicks wrote:

> Chris Moline wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:32:07AM +0300, A. Tatsyuk wrote:
> > > Using Linux Mandrake 8.0 (based on 2.4.3 kernel) I was pleasured with its
> > > console: soft scrolling, nice font, 100x37, colorized output. Is it possible
> > > to have the same on FreeBSD 4.2?
> > For nicer fonts and a different screen sizes see man vidcontrol. There's also a
> > couple of entries on this in the freebsd diary at
> > freebsddiary.org/console-fonts.php. I don't know what soft scrolling is but
> > colorized output depends on the application.
> 
> Unless they're in graphics mode the only way soft-scrolling could be
> done would be through a groady hack of manipulating the graphics adapter
> registers directly.
> 
> I once wrote a "sideways scroll" routine using this technique;  I hope
> something like that _never_ makes it into our console driver.  ;-)
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