Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:05:11 +0100 From: "Ian Grindley" <ian.grindley@nichetech.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: really stupid question about vidcontrol Message-ID: <2524C80D2EC3834E8C2C5A0CBE64AA3E026FEE@earth.nichetech.co.uk>
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Hi everyone, I am a pretty experienced computer user.. but new to unix.. so go easy.. I have a real desire to get my BSD system running like the SUN SPARCS I used at uni.. starting with the display I am running FreeBSD 4.3 (minimal distribution -still finding my way around!) I can install packages ok and have a good understanding of computer hardware.. Its really stupid but what I would like to do is to have my shell (not running x yet) display black text on a white background.. like the SUN Sparcs.. I have tried vidcontrol (looks promising but I cant get it to do much) also it shows a gray background instead of brilliant white. I would like these settings to be the system default, so that any future users will get these settings. (/skel/.dotfile perhaps?) I cannot seem to change video modes either.. is this the right syntax? vidcontrol mode xx where xx is the mode I want from the list you get by typing vidcontrol -i mode (I am running GeForce II mx 32MB) Please can someone give me some pointers on this? Cheers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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