From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 27 16:47:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA28537 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from houseofduck.dyn.ml.org (ts002d19.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28532 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shaggy@localhost) by houseofduck.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA10360; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 17:46:21 -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: <33DBD1E4.41C67EA6@olinet.isf.kiev.ua> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 17:41:59 -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 I see that now. My point was that nothing is mentioned in the moused man page, and I, too, don't have an rc.conf man page, as per the PR submitted earlier today. If one reads about mosed, and checks the moused page for info, there is no mention of vidcontrol, nor is it even listed in the "SEE ALSO": SEE ALSO keyboard(4), pcvt(4), screen(4) While I admint my question was a little snippy, it was the result of frustration in spending about an hour on this, and a few back-and-forths to the list all for the lack of a cross-reference or complete man page. On 27-Jul-97 Vladimir Kushnir wrote: >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 > -- 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.