Date: Sat, 4 Feb 95 23:10:46 MET From: sos@login.dknet.dk (S|ren Schmidt) To: eblood@winky.reno.nv.us (Eric Blood) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help hacking vidcontrol, possibly syscons Message-ID: <9502042210.AA25866@login.dknet.dk> In-Reply-To: <199502041957.LAA00372@winky>; from "Eric Blood" at Feb 4, 95 11:57 am
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You just have to redirect stdin as in:
vidcontrol VGA_80x50 < /dev/ttyv4
No mods are nessesary to either vidcontrol or syscons.
> I would like to be able to make different settings for each
> virtual console on startup. The problem is that vidcontrol
> only modifies the console tied to stdin (which in the case
> of starting up is only ttyv0).
>
> I quickly modified vidcontrol to open /dev/ttyv3, O_RDONLY
> and then passed that file descriptor to the ioctl call
> just as vidcontrol originally did (except with just stdin).
> The result is the virtual terminal running the modified
> vidcontrol is the one to change, not the hardwired /dev/ttyv3.
>
> Can I just change vidcontrol to do what I need? If so, how.
> Or, will I need to change syscons? If so, how much.
>
> Thanks.
>
> EVB
>
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org | sos@login.dknet.dk) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time
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