From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 19:51:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E165237BB5C for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:51:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA55590; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <00df01bfa8e0$f2e68ec0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Nils Holland" , "Bhishan Hemrajani" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Changing console colors Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:51:00 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>man vidcontrol< > >This does indeed work, I can set the foreground / background colors I like. >But it seems that only the virtual console I'm currently working on uses >the colors I set using vidcontrol. So how can I set my system up so that at >boot time ALL the virtual consoles use the background/foreground colors I >specify? I thought that I could use rc.conf, but while it's possible to set >(for example) the look of the cursor in that file, man rc.conf doesn't say >anything about setting colors... Take a look at the following option from /etc/defaults/rc.conf: allscreens_flags="" # Set this vidcontrol mode for all virtual screens Copy it to your /etc/rc.conf file and add the commands you want; these are sent to vidcontrol on boot, and affect all virtual terminals. >Another question about vidcontrol: I tried to change my video mode (well, I >did only want to try it, I'm happy with the default...). I entered >vidcontrol -i mode and I got a list of modes supported by my system. When I >entered (for example) vidcotrol 80x60 it said "Invalid argument", although >this mode was listed as being supported. What could be the problem? Answers >to this question are also welcome, although the first question about the >colors is more important to me. Have you recompiled your kernel with 'options VESA' included? See /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message