Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol vidcontrol.1 vidcontrol.c

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> dillon      2004/04/24 23:35:32 PDT
>
> DragonFly src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    usr.sbin/vidcontrol  vidcontrol.1 vidcontrol.c 
>  Log:
>  Support for more video modes: accept mode names like MODE_<NUMBER> where
>  <NUMBER> is the video mode number from the vidcontrol -i mode output.
>  MODE_13 is 320x200, for example...
>  
>  Change the default geometry of raster modes: calculate rows and columns
>  using the font width and height. This results in the row * col geometry
>  being as large as possible if no geometry is specified by the user. If
>  no font is specified the current font's height is used. The old
>  vidcontrol used a default geometry of 80x25 for raster modes.
>  
>  Remove restrictions on the range of background colors for graphics modes.
>  
>  Implement a cleaner revert mechanism: in case something goes wrong we
>  restore the previous settings and give a message telling what exactly
>  went wrong. Unfortunately, there are several parameters that cannot
>  (yet) be saved and restored due to restrictions in the syscons driver:
>  screen saver timeout, cursor type, mouse character, mouse show/hide
>  state, vty switching on/off state, history buffer size and history
>  buffer contents are not saved because the syscons driver doesn't provide
>  ioctl()s to read those parameters. Font maps are not restored because
>  the syscons driver won't let us load a font map without setting it.
>  
>  Submitted-by: Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>
>  
>  Revision  Changes     Path
>  1.3       +10 -5      src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1
>  1.4       +1013 -623  src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c
>
>
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4&f=h
>  
Is this the desired affect ?
ttyp0@trip[~/df/tree16/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol](45)# ./vidcontrol
vidcontrol: getting active vty: Inappropriate ioctl for device
ttyp0@trip[~/df/tree16/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol](46)#