From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 26 16:52:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA25940 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.dyn.ml.org (ts003d02.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA25931 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shaggy@localhost) by houseofduck.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA00622; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:50:55 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <33DA6D60.41C67EA6@olinet.isf.kiev.ua> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:49:29 -0600 (MDT) Organization: Shaggy Enterprises From: Joshua Fielden To: Vladimir Kushnir Subject: Re: moused problems... Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 26-Jul-97 Vladimir Kushnir wrote: >Joshua Fielden wrote: >> upon boot-up, moused runs from rc.conf, and gives no errors. ps -ax >> confirms the daemon is running with the flags I wish. But I don't >get a >> cursor at all. The man page does not say anything special needs to >be done >> once the daemon is running, so I assume there's something I'm >missing. >You've got to turn it on: > >vidcontrol -m on > >Hope this helps, >Vladimir > Which very obvious man page or handbook entry did I miss that says this, as the moused man page obviously only tells half the equation? -- Joshua Fielden, shag@concentric.net SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it's occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain.