Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:20:42 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 Message-ID: <87rainrbxh.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: Kazutaka YOKOTA's message of Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:24:23 %2B0900 References: <876804rsia.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.970207222919.2151A-100000@chaos.ecpnet.com> <19970208165555.12961@usn.blaze.net.au> <87bu9venx6.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <19970208201732.37402@usn.blaze.net.au> <87g1z47bc6.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <199702110324.MAA00887@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> writes: > vidcontrol -m on > in a virtual terminal, then from within the same terminal, I started X. Nope, not quite right, you have to do this: < /dev/ttyv? vidcontrol -m on > /dev/ttyv? 2>&1 (not sure exactly which of the above redirections you don't need) replace the ? with the next unused virtual terminal. > My understanding is that the sysmouse driver, which is actually a part > of the syscons driver, feed mouse data only to the foreground virtual > terminal. So, there should be no conflict, whether `vidcontrol -m on' > in any of the virtual terminals or not. but, what happens when there are two processes in the forground terminal that want the mouse? Now that I think about it, the problem is very obvious... What's not obvious is why it always chose to paste the 'd'. > I may be wrong and I may be just fortunate enough not to have trouble > with moused... I didn't notice it for a couple days. I only noticed when I scrolled back in an xterm, and found about 6 d's on the command line. The left button never did anything funky.. just the other two. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.
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