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Date:      Sun, 01 Jul 2001 14:49:18 -0700
From:      W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@pacbell.net>
To:        Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nice console
Message-ID:  <3B3F9ADE.12352F4B@pacbell.net>
References:  <OE31sca0ZkfzDskqC5E00012f68@hotmail.com> <20010701090728.A37765@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>

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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.  ;-)

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