From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 14:53:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.allyster.com (fw.allyster.com [194.202.29.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AC0937B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 14:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jslivko@jslivko.org) Received: (qmail 25514 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2001 21:55:54 -0000 Received: from mail.allyster.com (jslivko@194.202.29.35) by mail.allyster.com with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 21:55:54 -0000 Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 22:55:54 +0100 (BST) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" X-Sender: jslivko@localhost.localdomain To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Chris Moline , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nice console In-Reply-To: <3B3F9ADE.12352F4B@pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 In X, you can side scroll, it just moves to a new desktop. -- Jonathan \|||/ (o o) /-----------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo----------------------------\ | Jonathan M. Slivko E-Mail: jslivko@jslivko.org | | IRC Nick: optix` Backup: js43064n@pace.edu | | AIM/AOL: JMSNY2001 Web : http://www.jslivko.org | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | "History teaches us that days like this are best spent in bed" | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/ On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > Chris Moline wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 06:32:07AM +0300, A. Tatsyuk wrote: > > > Using Linux Mandrake 8.0 (based on 2.4.3 kernel) I was pleasured with its > > > console: soft scrolling, nice font, 100x37, colorized output. Is it possible > > > to have the same on FreeBSD 4.2? > > For nicer fonts and a different screen sizes see man vidcontrol. There's also a > > couple of entries on this in the freebsd diary at > > freebsddiary.org/console-fonts.php. I don't know what soft scrolling is but > > colorized output depends on the application. > > Unless they're in graphics mode the only way soft-scrolling could be > done would be through a groady hack of manipulating the graphics adapter > registers directly. > > I once wrote a "sideways scroll" routine using this technique; I hope > something like that _never_ makes it into our console driver. ;-) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message