Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said: > Thank you all, that worked. And once I saw the whole screen with green on > black, (ugh!) I went back to white on black. But now at least I know how > to do it! > > Now to find the syntax for allscreens_flags and learn about that argument. > I may want to set different virtual terminals to different settings. The startup scripts basically run vidcontrol $allscreens_flags, once for each vty. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
Dan, Erik, JJB...
Thank you all, that worked. And once I saw the whole screen with
green on black, (ugh!) I went back to white on black. But now at
least I know how to do it!
Now to find the syntax for allscreens_flags and learn about that
argument. I may want to set different virtual terminals to
different settings.
Jay O'Brien
Rio Linda, CA USA
Ref: FreeBSD console 50 lines
JJB wrote:
> What Dan meant to say is add this line to your rc.conf file and
> reboot
>
> allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Nelson
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:42 PM
> To: Jay O'Brien
> Cc: FreeBSD - questions
> Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
>
> In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
>
>>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters
>>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in
>>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures
>
> to boot
>
>>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover.
>
> (Probably a
>
>>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
>
>
> :)
>
>
>>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on
>
> black, and
>
>>I'm stumped.
>
>
> This should work:
>
> allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
>
> ("-m on" enables the mouse)
>
> --
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RE: Console 50-lines at bootup?
What Dan meant to say is add this line to your rc.conf file and
reboot
allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
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Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters
> when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in
> /etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures
to boot
> that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover.
(Probably a
> good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
:)
> I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on
black, and
> I'm stumped.
This should work:
allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
("-m on" enables the mouse)
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Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:55:26PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> > In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> >
> >>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters
> >>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in
> >>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
> >>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover. (Probably a
> >>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
> >
> >
> > :)
> >
> >
> >>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
> >>I'm stumped.
> >
> >
> > This should work:
> >
> > allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
> >
> > ("-m on" enables the mouse)
> >
>
> Thank you,
>
> Where should I place that instruction?
/etc/rc.conf
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Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
>
>>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters
>>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in
>>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
>>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover. (Probably a
>>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
>
>
> :)
>
>
>>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
>>I'm stumped.
>
>
> This should work:
>
> allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
>
> ("-m on" enables the mouse)
>
Thank you,
Where should I place that instruction?
Jay
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Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters
> when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in
> /etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
> that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover. (Probably a
> good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
:)
> I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
> I'm stumped.
This should work:
allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
("-m on" enables the mouse)
--
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Console 50-lines at bootup?
I ran FreeBSD for the first time last week; I have 4.10 working. Following http://users.rcn.com/rneswold/fbsd-init.html I have set up console fonts in /etc/rc.conf and set up 50-line mode in /etc/ttys. I can use vidcontrol VGA_80x50 and vidcontrol green black from the console to set ttyv0 or whatever virtual terminal I'm using. I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in /etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover. (Probably a good thing that I had to learn about single-user!) I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and I'm stumped. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA, USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
