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On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, David Benfell wrote:
>
> Wouldn't the copy and paste operation require moused? I have an issue
> here because I haven't figured out how to get moused to recognize my
> USB mouse (which is strange: it does this just fine on my notebook).

If you are using vt(4), the mouse pointer does not appear if
hw.vga.textmode=1 is set in /boot/loader.conf.