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From: Jeremy Chadwick <yoshi@parodius.com>
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Subject: kern/34952: Mouse cursor invisible with USB mice and usbd
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>Number:         34952
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Mouse cursor invisible with USB mice and usbd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 14 21:10:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jeremy Chadwick
>Release:        4.5-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not applicable.
>Description:
When using a USB mouse on console, the mouse cursor is not present.
>How-To-Repeat:
Use usbd_enable="yes" in rc.conf, reboot.  Note the lack-of mouse cursor.
>Fix:
The problem is because "vidcontrol -m on" is not being called anywhere in the rc scripts.

Two probable solutions:

1.  Modify the usbd source (or usbd.conf, if it supports something like "&&" when passing the string to the shell) to do "vidcontrol -m on" when plugging in/unplugging a mouse.

2.  Modify the rc files to support something like vidcontrol_init="yes" and vidcontrol_flags="-m on" in rc.conf.

I'm very surprised no one's noticed this by now.  :-)
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