From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 19 5:16:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E74437B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 05:16:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/26Jan01-1134AM) id f3JCFIi209380; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:15:18 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/30Jan01-0241PM) id f3JCFI755826; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:15:18 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:COINPy0xbcHnPN1NipiFQn0s81VwFRTN@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.43.7]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id VAA16007; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:23:58 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200104191223.VAA16007@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Syscons mouse char range redefine proposal In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:03:01 +0400." <20010419160300.A52373@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010419154827.A52282@nagual.pp.ru> <200104191154.f3JBsqV10841@freebsd.dk> <20010419160300.A52373@nagual.pp.ru> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:23:57 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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