From 23d4c14e46e80735923b488bd1b89812b3354f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:53:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improve wording in the console video mode section.
---
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index 594f3852d2..fa269d291c 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -306,22 +306,19 @@ options SC_PIXEL_MODE</programlisting>
<para>Once the kernel has been recompiled with these two
options, you can then determine what video modes are supported
by your hardware by using the &man.vidcontrol.1; utility. To
- get a list of supported video modes, type the following in a
- root console:</para>
+ get a list of supported video modes issue the following:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>vidcontrol -i mode</userinput></screen>
<para>The output of this command is a list of video modes that
are supported by your hardware. You can then choose to use a
- new video mode by passing it to vidcontrol in a root console,
- as in this example:</para>
+ new video mode by passing it to &man.vidcontrol.1; in a <username>root</username> console:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>vidcontrol MODE_279</userinput></screen>
<para>If the new video mode is acceptable, it can be permanently
- set on boot by including the following in your
- <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> file, again using the above
- example:</para>
+ set on boot by setting it in the <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>
+ file:</para>
<programlisting>allscreens_flags="MODE_279"</programlisting>
</sect2>