Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 14:49:18 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@pacbell.net> To: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nice console Message-ID: <3B3F9ADE.12352F4B@pacbell.net> References: <OE31sca0ZkfzDskqC5E00012f68@hotmail.com> <20010701090728.A37765@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>
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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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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