Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:44:46 +0100 From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I find out the current vidcontrol settings? Message-ID: <6429.898253086@raven.ravenbrook.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:13:32 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612011253.11999g-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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At 1998-06-12 08:13:32 UT, Doug White writes: > 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? How can I use it to discover the current settings? For instance, is it possible to switch to some particular vidcontrol mode (e.g. white-on-black 80x25 normal cursor), and then return to the previous settings? This is the sort of thing I am interested in doing. If the underlying ioctls were documented I might stand a chance.... Nick B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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