From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 02:06:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA00285 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:06:39 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA00273 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 02:06:32 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t6wI6-000I17C; Sun, 22 Oct 95 10:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0t6vhU-00001LC; Sun, 22 Oct 95 09:24 MET Message-Id: From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: PCVT Console problems To: jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 09:24:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510211326.NAA06574@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> from "Basket Case" at Oct 21, 95 01:26:21 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 699 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Basket Case: > The problem I have is that vidcontrol wont run. When I type vidcontrol, > it says Must be on virtual console: Inappropriate ioctl for device Vidcontrol controls syscons, the programs appropriate for pcvt are: cursor(1), loadfont(1), mcon(1) and scon(1) and some more. Have a look at the man pages and everything should work! Also, please have a look at all the examples and documentation in the directories below /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc almost everything is explained there .... hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?