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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in3.uu.net!129.115.10.31!naiad.utsa.edu!uthscsa.edu!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD resources, or some quick Newbie Answers.. Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:06:37 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <33653B8D.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> References: <AnLad9W00iWl0J14w0@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Nicolas M Pottier <np27+@andrew.cmu.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39954 Nicolas M Pottier wrote: > a) How do I map my caps-lock key to control, and my alt key to meta at > the terminal, so it's that way both in the shell and in X. See the man page for kbdcontrol. You can dump the keymap out as an ascii map, edit it (and the lines for caps lock and meta are easy to find) and then load it back in. You can also move the edited version into /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/mykeymap.kbd and then set "keymap=mykeymap" in /etc/sysconfig to have it happen at boot time. And X should inheirit the new settings, otherwise use xmodmap to frob the X keyboard specifically. > b) How do I change to a higher video mode in the terminal.. This > standard 40xwhatever is getting old pretty quick. Read the man page for vidcontrol - you can load in a different font and then switch to it. > Also, are there any more archives for FreeBSD software than what is > available at CDROM? Or is cdrom.com generally the alrgest archive? ftp.freebsd.org, AKA ftp.cdrom.com, is pretty much *the* place to get FreeBSD stuff. Most other sites just mirror from us anyway. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.