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Subject: Re: moused and cut & paste
To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:46:36 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Charles Green who wrote:
> 
> 
>         OK, I've spent half the day playing with this. How do I get the
> console mouse/cut & paste to work on FreeBSD 2.2-961014? I've ran moused in
> debug mode and it is corectly tracking all the mouse movements. What do I need
> to do?

Enable moused (you already seem to have that part), and then use
vidcontrol -m on to turn on the mousepointer.

Remember this only works on VGA's...

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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