From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 22:19:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15908 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:19:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles314.castles.com [208.214.167.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15892 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:19:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA02686; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:37:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806220137.SAA02686@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "James W. Brinkerhoff" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question on syscons In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:16:39 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:37:30 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > # In all of my recent installs, I get the mouse support (and cut & > # paste) on ttyv0, but I don't get it on any of the other virtual > # consoles. Is that the expected behavior? > > You need to execute "vidcontrol -m on" on every ttyv you want to be able > to cut/paste text to/from. Just to point out that on more recently installed system (perhaps only in the -current branch) the 'allscreens_flags' option in rc.conf can be utilised to automate this, if you're not using it to set video modes. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message