Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:40:51 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard and mouse issues Message-ID: <20080618174051.21527fc4@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20080618231946.42d163f7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <C119B823E36E7A42B3A2A12D2779B14301D6C93B@us22exm01.maclean-fogg.com> <20080618231946.42d163f7.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:19:46 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:53:59 -0500 > "Schlechter, Fred" <FRS@MacLeanPower.com> wrote: > > > The mouse pointer disappears when keys are pressed on the keyboard. > > The mouse pointer reappears only when the mouse is moved or one of > > the mouse buttons is pressed. This happens only in the console and > > AFAIK, this works as designed. And it has been working like that long > before 7.0. > > > I really can't say if this is a bug, but it is annoying and this issue > > did not exist when using a PS2 mouse and keyboard. > > Are you certain about that? I just tested a few systems here, and all > remove the mouse pointer i console when keys are pressed. Some of these > systems run FreeBSD 6.x, and one runs 7.0-stable. In the terminal emulators, this is a function of them rather than FreeBSD. For instance, xterm turns off the mouse cursor based on the value of the pointerMode resource; the default behavior is as described above most of the time. Sure enough, setting it to never turn off and starting a new xterm makes it never disappear. Other emulators may well have copied that behavior. The video card driver may get involved as well; if it has a hardware cursor and that's enabled, the requests to turn off the cursor might be ignored. I think I've seen that, but can't be certain. I'm not sure whether the console emulation does this, but it wouldn't surprise me. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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