Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:55:57 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CALL FOR REVIEW: man page update Message-ID: <199902050255.SAA31885@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199902041433.XAA15337@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Feb 4, 99 11:33:07 pm"
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Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > In order to reflect the recent changes regarding syscons, keyboard and > video drivers, I wrote the following new man pages and update for a > couple of existing ones. They are rudimentary, but better than > nothing. > > http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/man4update.tar.gz I've added a couple of tweaks. For some reason the ".Fx" macro doesn't work on my terminal (using "nroff -man foo.4"), it just replaces the O/S version with nothing.. so I used ".Tn" instead which is what the pnpinfo(8) man page uses. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com diff -ur old/atkbd.4 new/atkbd.4 --- old/atkbd.4 Thu Feb 4 05:45:09 1999 +++ new/atkbd.4 Thu Feb 4 18:41:41 1999 @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ The .Nm driver first appeared in -.Fx 3.1 . +.Tn FreeBSD +3.1. .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm diff -ur old/atkbdc.4 new/atkbdc.4 --- old/atkbdc.4 Thu Feb 4 05:45:10 1999 +++ new/atkbdc.4 Thu Feb 4 18:43:06 1999 @@ -77,9 +77,11 @@ The .Nm driver first appeared in -.Fx 3.1 . +.Tn FreeBSD +3.1. It is based on the kbdio module in -.Fx 2.2 . +.Tn FreeBSD +2.2. .Sh AUTHORS The kbdio module and the .Nm diff -ur old/splash.4 new/splash.4 --- old/splash.4 Thu Feb 4 05:45:15 1999 +++ new/splash.4 Thu Feb 4 18:48:38 1999 @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ .Fl c or .Fl v -boot option when loading kernel, the splash image won't appear. -(But is still loaded and can be used as a screen saver later; see below.) +boot option when loading kernel, the splash image won't appear +(though it is still loaded and can be used as a screen saver later; see below). .Pp In order to display the bitmap, the bitmap file itself and matching splash image decoder must be loaded by the boot loader. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ .It splash_bmp.ko W*ndows BMP file decoder. While the BMP file format allows various depth of colors, this decoder -can handle 256 color bitmaps only. +can only handle 256 color bitmaps. Other color depth won't work. .El .Pp @@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ The screen saver won't run if the current screen is not in the text mode. .Sh SPLASH SCREEN AS A SCREEN SAVER -If you load splash image but don't load a screen saver, +If you load a splash image but don't load a screen saver, you can continue using the splash module as a screen saver. Specify the screen blanking interval as explained in the .Sx SCREEN SAVER -section above, then +section above, and the splash screen image will come back after the specified time. .\".Sh DRIVER CONFIGURATION .Sh FILES @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ .Xr pcvt 4 . .Sh BUGS If you load a screen saver while another screen saver has already -been loaded, the first screen saver won't be automatically unloaed +been loaded, the first screen saver won't be automatically unloaded and remain in memory, wasting kernel memory space. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr vidcontrol 1 , @@ -197,12 +197,13 @@ .Xr loader.rc 5 , .Xr rc.conf 5 , .Xr kldload 8 , -.Xr kldunload 8 , +.Xr kldunload 8 . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in -.Fx 3.1 . +.Tn FreeBSD +3.1. .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm diff -ur old/vga.4 new/vga.4 --- old/vga.4 Thu Feb 4 05:45:18 1999 +++ new/vga.4 Thu Feb 4 18:52:40 1999 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ option is required in the kernel configuration file in this case too. .Sh DRIVER CONFIGURATION .Ss Kernel Configuration Options -There are following kernel configuration options to control the +The following kernel configuration options control the .Nm driver. They may be set in the kernel configuration file @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ option. .It Em VESA_DEBUG=N Set the VESA support debug level to N. -The default value is zero and all debugging output is suppressed. +The default value is zero (all debugging output is suppressed). .El .Pp The following options will remove some features from the @@ -128,14 +128,18 @@ .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr syscons 4 , .Xr kldload 8 , -.Xr kldunload 8 +.Xr kldunload 8 . .Sh STANDARD -``VESA BIOS Extension (VBE)'', Video Electronics Standards Association. +.Rs +.%T "VESA BIOS Extension (VBE)" +.%A Video Electronics Standards Association +.Re .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in -.Fx 3.1 . +.Tn FreeBSD +3.1. .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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