Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:23:57 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal Message-ID: <200104191223.VAA16007@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:03:01 %2B0400." <20010419160300.A52373@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010419154827.A52282@nagual.pp.ru> <200104191154.f3JBsqV10841@freebsd.dk> <20010419160300.A52373@nagual.pp.ru>
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>On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 13:54:52 +0200, S ren Schmidt wrote: >> It seems Andrey A. Chernov wrote: >> > Currently SC_MOUSE_CHAR occupes 0xd0-0xd4 range which produce conflict >> > with several languages code tables. I plan to redefine it by default to >> > 0x03-0x07 leaving possibility to redefine it to any range as currently >> > present. This way minimizes arcane information needed for user to setup >> > its language correctly. >> > >> > Any objections? >> >> Wont work, it needs to be in the (IIRC) 0xd0 - 0xe0 range for the >> HW to DTRT with the ninth bit on VGA HW. > >It works for years, just making small vertical black line sometimes >appearse in the cursor. > >> The has been beaten to death several times before, check the archives... > >We just add yet one conflicting language - Ukrainian. How many you want >to change this decision? Breaking letters is more important than black >line in the cursor. This has been discussed so many times in the past. We can configure the the base mouse char ether 1) by the kernel option SC_MOUSE_CHAR or 2) by `vidcontrol -M'. Maybe we should automatically add `-M 3' to flags for vidcontrol in rc.conf for those languages... Kazu > >-- >Andrey A. Chernov >http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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