On 11-04-09 17:17, Warren Block wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Sascha Vieweg wrote:
As a curious beginner I am running FreeBSD on VMWare Fusion
3.1.2 on a MacBook Pro 13'' i5, and I want to do two things on
the normal (startup) console:
(1) use my apple keyboard, especially, scroll through console
output
man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling'
... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard
description). However, I have got a MB Pro where no such key is
available. Thus, I may repeat my question: How can I get console
scolling working on my MacBook Pro 13''?
(2) have a screen resolution of at least 800x600.
vidcontrol(1) can set different modes, potentially including
VESA_800x600. What's available depends on the video card BIOS
and you'll probably have to build a kernel with SC_PIXEL_MODE.
Both things seem to be no particular problem in X11, however,
I cannot find advices for the normal console.
Unless you're trying to emulate a machine without X11 for a
particular purpose, xterms are more versatile than consoles.
It's probably possible to get a console-like stack of fullscreen
xterms with one of the mouseless window managers.
Thanks, the vidcontrol tip helped a lot.
*S*
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Sascha Vieweg, [email protected]
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