From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 09:08:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA21320 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA21314 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:08:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.4/8.7.3) id SAA01738; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:08:09 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199701101708.SAA01738@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: moused In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Jan 10, 97 10:40:38 am" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:08:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org From: sos@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote: > I was experimenting with moused and vidcontrol, and had a surprise, after > I'd had a nice mouse going for maybe half an hour. All vts suddenly > filled all the empty character positions with a character looking like a > shortened version of the character "u". Interesting feature :) > Is there any method to reset the screen, or font, or what can I do (short > of rebooting, which I did last time) to correct this? Hmm, shutting off the mouse and reloading the fonts should take care of that, but since I don't know what happend... I have seen this yet, anybody else ?? The only problem I know of is on my p5, where the system freezes when I move the moused rapidly around, I dont know why yet, but the p5 optimized bcopy and friends are suspects... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..