From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 11 00:20:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA07469 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from murkwood.gaffaneys.com (dialup9.gaffaneys.com [134.129.252.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07460 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from zach@localhost) by murkwood.gaffaneys.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA04693; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 02:20:42 -0600 (CST) To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused and X11R6 References: <876804rsia.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <19970208165555.12961@usn.blaze.net.au> <87bu9venx6.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <19970208201732.37402@usn.blaze.net.au> <87g1z47bc6.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <199702110324.MAA00887@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Zach Heilig Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:20:42 -0600 In-Reply-To: Kazutaka YOKOTA's message of Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:24:23 +0900 Message-ID: <87rainrbxh.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> Lines: 34 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kazutaka YOKOTA writes: > vidcontrol -m on > in a virtual terminal, then from within the same terminal, I started X. Nope, not quite right, you have to do this: < /dev/ttyv? vidcontrol -m on > /dev/ttyv? 2>&1 (not sure exactly which of the above redirections you don't need) replace the ? with the next unused virtual terminal. > My understanding is that the sysmouse driver, which is actually a part > of the syscons driver, feed mouse data only to the foreground virtual > terminal. So, there should be no conflict, whether `vidcontrol -m on' > in any of the virtual terminals or not. but, what happens when there are two processes in the forground terminal that want the mouse? Now that I think about it, the problem is very obvious... What's not obvious is why it always chose to paste the 'd'. > I may be wrong and I may be just fortunate enough not to have trouble > with moused... I didn't notice it for a couple days. I only noticed when I scrolled back in an xterm, and found about 6 d's on the command line. The left button never did anything funky.. just the other two. -- Zach Heilig (zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com) | ALL unsolicited commercial email Support bacteria -- it's the only | is unwelcome. I avoid dealing form of culture some people have! | with companies that email ads.