Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I find out the current vidcontrol settings? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612011253.11999g-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <7485.897299781@wren.ravenbrook.com>
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nick Barnes wrote: > At 1998-06-05 22:24:58 UT, Doug White writes: > > > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Nick Barnes wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to discover the current the current video driver > > > settings? There ought to be a vidcontrol -a (or similar), c.f. stty. > > > > What do you want to know? > > I want to discover the colours and the cursor appearance, in a shell > script. This isn't a very important application, but it strikes me as > a general failing in this tool, and maybe in the underlying ioctls > which vidcontrol uses. Also those ioctl's don't seem to covered in > the man pages. I didn't know vidcontrol toyed with that. I think the console supports ANSI color, so why not use that? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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