vidcontrol at boot time?

[ph0enix]

Where should I stick vidcontrol if I want it to execute when the system boots? I currently have it in /etc/rc.conf and it works but there is a message saying "vidcontrol: not found" on the screen at some point during boot so I'm thinking there must be a better/cleaner way.

Thanks!

J.

[DutchDaemon]

See "mousechar_start", "allscreens_flags", and " isdn_screenflags" in rc.conf(5) and flags/options in vidcontrol(1).

[lme@]

You can also add the vidcontrol command to /etc/rc.

[ph0enix]

See "mousechar_start", "allscreens_flags", and " isdn_screenflags" in rc.conf(5) and flags/options in vidcontrol(1).

Are these options documented somewhere? all_screens_flags did the trick but I wouldn't mind finding out what the others do.

Thanks!

[ph0enix]

You can also add the vidcontrol command to /etc/rc.

Can you explain? Thanks!

[Mel_Flynn]

Are these options documented somewhere? all_screens_flags did the trick but I wouldn't mind finding out what the others do.

Thanks!

He should've linked it I guess. For future reference, if someone types rc.conf(5), you will find documentation by typing:

man 5 rc.conf

From that manpage:

allscreens_flags
(str) If set, vidcontrol(1) is run with these options for
each of the virtual terminals (/dev/ttyv*). For example,
``-m on'' will enable the mouse pointer on all virtual termi-
nals if moused_enable is set to ``YES''.

[lme@]

Can you explain? Thanks!

/etc/rc is the file that gets executed first when FreeBSD boots. So you can add something there if you want to execute it very early.

[DutchDaemon]

But beware at mergemaster time ;)