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From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: console and terminal problems
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	man vidcontrol, man syscons.  Do you mean ls with color on the
terminal, or do you mean that the text is blue and the background is white
etc.?  If the latter, than the answer is also in man vidcontrol.

Ian

In the last episode, a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com stated...
> 
> Dear FreeBSD,
> 
> Running 4.3 on i386 notebook. Use console a lot any have 3 
> config questions:
> 
> 1. how to set up text consoles to default to 50 lines, 80 
> characters?
> 
> 2. use 8bit iso8859-1, Swiss German keyboard. How to set console 
> to correctly show all characters? Now have Swiss font and 
> iso8859-1 to ibm437 screenmap. Typed characters show correctly 
> but frames e. g. in midc do not.
> 
> 3. how to get colour terminals on console and X?
> 
> Support incl. reference to appropriate docs welcome.
> 
> Thanks and greetings,
> 
> Lucien
> 
> 
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