Console 50-lines at bootup?
Jay O'Brien
jayobrien at att.net
Tue Jul 27 17:08:14 PDT 2004
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: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On 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)
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson at allantgroup.com
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