From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 00:41:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA01577 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ra.dkuug.dk (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA01572; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:41:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ra.dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA05529; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:40:55 +0200 Message-Id: <199606240740.JAA05529@ra.dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 09:40:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Jun 23, 96 10:28:32 pm From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-to: sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Andreas Klemm who wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 sos@freebsd.org wrote: > > Well, your moused is really cool. Linux has something similar, > but not the cool mouse pointer ;-)) Hey, we do things "right" when we finally do then ok ? :) :) > Some questions ... is the moused limited for use on ttyv0 only ? No, it works for all *active* vty's. > Did you make the same experience like I, that moused doesn't > work properly, when it's started from /etc/rc.i386 just before > the getty's become active ?! [stuff deleted] The problem here is that the vty's aren't there when before the getty's are run. THe vty are dynamically allocated (to save space) and so they are actually not there before they are opened the first time (by the getty). This apparently effects the way the mousepointer is handled. Oh well, I'll look at it... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.