From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 8 10:10:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AC21579D for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 10:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id NAA42770; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:10:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:10:31 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Cejka Rudolf , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, saper@system.pl Subject: Re: syscons: SC_MOUSE_CHAR value rationale In-Reply-To: <200001080553.OAA14530@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > >I agree with you - it is very strange for Czech users too (and maybe > >for almost all ISO-8859-* users) - default mouse settings override some > >important characters. Maybe we should ask Kazu if it is possible: > > > >1) Move SC_MOUSE_CHAR into sysctl tree as read-write value. > > Maybe we had better implement a new ioctl and use vidcontrol to set up > mouse char codes. > > sysctl is to tweak the kernel behavior. I would rather hesitate to > use it to customize device drivers, unless it has something to do with > kernel state/behavior and/or security; this is not the case with > SC_MOUSE_CHAR. > > >But Kazu have cleared off in December and I don't know where he is... > > I am here :-) > Kazu, before you made yourself visible, I went ahead and patched -stable's syscons to include the hw.syscons.sc_mouse_char sysctl variable. The patch is in PR kern/15996. I could change to to use the ioctl interface if you think that is is necessary. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message