From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 16:13:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA26749 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isf.kiev.ua (sunone.isf.kiev.ua [194.44.162.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26621 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from olinet.isf.kiev.ua by isf.kiev.ua with ESMTP id BAA00458; (8.8.3/2.b1) Mon, 28 Jul 1997 01:56:33 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from kushnir.kiev.ua by olinet.isf.kiev.ua with SMTP id BAA22480; (8.8.3/vak/1.9) Mon, 28 Jul 1997 01:53:17 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <33DBD1E4.41C67EA6@olinet.isf.kiev.ua> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 22:55:32 +0000 From: Vladimir Kushnir X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Fielden CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moused problems... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joshua Fielden wrote: > > 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. It's "man vidcontrol" (very shrt entry). Vladimir