From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 1 5: 5:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.nichetech.co.uk (unknown [62.49.147.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFDD37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 05:05:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian.grindley@nichetech.co.uk) Subject: really stupid question about vidcontrol Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:05:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <2524C80D2EC3834E8C2C5A0CBE64AA3E026FEE@earth.nichetech.co.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: really stupid question about vidcontrol Thread-Index: AcEagjbxXC2haxLBRxuwzEbKZB17GA== content-class: urn:content-classes:message From: "Ian Grindley" To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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