Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 09:24:12 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCVT Console problems Message-ID: <m0t6vhU-00001LC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199510211326.NAA06574@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> from "Basket Case" at Oct 21, 95 01:26:21 pm
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>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
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