Attachment 22356 Details for Bug 38815 – syscons.4.patch

[patch] syscons.4.patch

syscons.4.patch (text/plain), 7.37 KB, created by Chris Pepper on 2002-06-02 10:40:14 UTC

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Created: 2002-06-02 10:40:14 UTC

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>--- syscons.4	Sat Jun  1 23:46:21 2002
>+++ syscons.4.fixed	Sun Jun  2 00:09:18 2002
>@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@
> .Xr getty 8
> will recognize them to be active and run
> .Xr login 1
>-to let the user to login to the system.
>+to let the user log into the system.
> By default, only the first eight virtual terminals are activated in
> .Pa /etc/ttys .
> .Pp
> You press the
> .Dv Alt
>-key and a switch key to switch between
>+key and switch keys to switch between
> virtual terminals.
> The following table summarizes the correspondence between the switch
> key and the virtual terminal.
>@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
> key on the AT Enhanced keyboard) to cycle available virtual terminals.
> .Pp
> The default number of available virtual terminals is 16.
>-This can be changed by the kernel configuration option
>+This can be changed with the kernel configuration option
> .Dv MAXCONS
> (see below).
> .Pp
>@@ -151,10 +151,9 @@
> .Pa /usr/share/syscons/fonts .
> .Pp
> The font comes in various sizes: 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16.
>-The 8x16 font is typically used for the VGA card in the 80-column-
>-by-25-line mode.
>-Other video modes may require different size of font.
>-It is better to always load these three sizes of the same font.
>+The 8x16 font is typically used for the VGA card in the 80-column-by-25-line mode.
>+Other video modes may require different font sizes.
>+It is better to always load all three sizes of the same font.
> .Pp
> You may set
> .Ar font8x8 ,
>@@ -162,43 +161,43 @@
> and
> .Ar font8x16
> variables in
>-.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
>+.Pa /etc/rc.conf
> to the desired font files so that they will be automatically loaded
> when the system starts up.
> .Pp
>-Optionally you can make a particular font file as the default font.
>+Optionally you can specify a particular font file as the default.
> See the
> .Dv SC_DFLT_FONT
> option below.
> .Ss Screen Map
>-If your video card does not support software font, you may still be able
>-to have similar effect by re-mapping font hard-wired in the video card.
>+If your video card does not support software fonts, you may still be able
>+to achieve a similar effect by re-mapping the font built into your video card.
> Use
> .Xr vidcontrol 1
>-to load a screen map file which defines mapping between character codes.
>+to load a screen map file which defines the mapping between character codes.
> .Ss Mouse Support and Copy-and-Paste
> You can use your mouse to copy text on the screen and paste it as if
>-it is typed by hand.
>+it was typed by hand.
> You must be running the mouse daemon
> .Xr moused 8
> and enable the mouse cursor in the virtual terminal via
> .Xr vidcontrol 1 .
> .Pp
>-Pressing the mouse button 1 (usually the left button) will start selection.
>-Releasing the button 1 will end the selection process.
>+Pressing mouse button 1 (usually the left button) will start selection.
>+Releasing button 1 will end the selection process.
> The selected text will be marked by inverting foreground and
> background colors.
>-You can press the button 3 (usually the right button) to extend
>+You can press button 3 (usually the right button) to extend
> the selected region.
> The selected text is placed in the copy buffer and can be pasted
>-at the cursor position by your pressing the button 2 (usually the
>+at the cursor position by pressing button 2 (usually the
> middle button) as many times as you like.
> .Pp
> If your mouse has only two buttons, you may want to use the
> .Dv SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE
> option below to make the right button to paste the text.
> Alternatively you can make the mouse daemon
>-to emulate the middle button.
>+emulate the middle button.
> See the man page for
> .Xr moused 8
> for more details.
>@@ -206,33 +205,34 @@
> The
> .Nm
> driver allows the user to browse the output which has ``scrolled off''
>-from the top of the screen.
>+the top of the screen.
> .Pp
>-Press the ``slock'' key (usually
>+Press the ``slock'' key (called
> .Dv ScrllLock
>-and/or
>+.Dv scroll lock
>+or
> .Dv Pause
>-keys on many AT Enhanced keyboards) and the terminal is
>-in the ``back scrolling'' mode.
>+on many keyboards) and the terminal goes
>+into ``scrollback'' mode.
> It is indicated by the
> .Dv Scroll Lock
> LED.
>-Use arrow keys,
>+Use the arrow keys, the
> .Dv Page Up/Down
>-keys and
>+keys and the
> .Dv Home/End
>-keys to scroll buffered terminal output.
>+keys to scroll through this buffer.
> Press the ``slock'' key again to get back to the normal terminal mode.
> .Pp
>-The size of the back-scroll buffer can be set by the
>+The size of the scrollback buffer can be set by the
> .Dv SC_HISTORY_SIZE
>-option below.
>+option described below.
> .Ss Screen Saver
> The
> .Nm
> driver can be made to put up the screen saver if the current
> virtual terminal is idle, that is, the user is not typing
>-on the keyboard nor moving mouse.
>+on the keyboard nor moving the mouse.
> See
> .Xr splash 4
> and
>@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@
> .It Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
> This option selects the alternative way of displaying the mouse cursor
> in the virtual terminal.
>-It may be vastly costly for some video cards to draw the arrow-shaped
>-cursor and you may want to try this option.
>+It may be expensive for some video cards to draw the arrow-shaped
>+cursor, and you may want to try this option.
> However, the appearance of the alternative mouse cursor may not be
> very appealing.
> Note that if you use the
>@@ -260,12 +260,12 @@
> option then you must also use this option if you wish to be able to use
> the mouse.
> .It Dv SC_DISABLE_DDBKEY
>-This option disables the ``debug'' key (by default, it is
>+This option disables the ``debug'' key combination (by default, it is
> .Dv Alt-Esc ,
> or
> .Dv Ctl-PrintScreen ) .
>-It will prevent the user from
>-entering the kernel debugger DDB by pressing the key combination.
>+It will prevent users from
>+entering the kernel debugger (DDB) by pressing the key combination.
> DDB will still be invoked when the kernel panics or hits a break point
> if it is included in the kernel.
> .It Dv SC_DISABLE_REBOOT
>@@ -281,7 +281,6 @@
> Unless the
> .Dv SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE
> option above is specified, the
>-The
> .Nm
> driver reserves four consecutive character codes in order to display the
> mouse cursor in the virtual terminals in some systems.
>@@ -321,8 +320,8 @@
> 16-line, 14-line and 8-line font data will be compiled in.
> Without this option, the
> .Nm
>-driver will use whatever font already loaded in the video card,
>-unless you explicitly load software font at startup.
>+driver will use whatever font is already loaded in the video card,
>+unless you explicitly load a software font at startup.
> See
> .Sx EXAMPLES
> below.
>@@ -338,7 +337,7 @@
> .It Dv SC_NO_FONT_LOADING
> The
> .Nm
>-driver can load software font on some video cards.
>+driver can load software fontf on some video cards.
> This option removes this feature.
> Note that if you still wish to use
> the mouse with this option then you must also use the
>@@ -390,7 +389,7 @@
> .\"This option suppresses the bell, whether audible or visual,
> .\"if it is rung in a background virtual terminal.
> .It 0x0080 (VESA800X600)
>-This option puts the video card in the VESA 800x600 dots, 16 color
>+This option puts the video card in the VESA 800x600 pixel, 16 color
> mode.
> It may be useful for laptop computers for which the 800x600 mode
> is otherwise unsupported by the X server.
>@@ -473,8 +472,8 @@
> .Pp
> .\".Sh DIAGNOSTICS
> .Sh CAVEATS
>-Amount of data that is possible to insert from the cut buffer is limited
>-by the
>+The amount of data that is possible to insert from the cut buffer is limited
>+by
> .Brq Dv MAX_INPUT ,
> a system limit on the number of bytes that may be stored in the terminal
> input queue - usually 1024 bytes

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