Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:40:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jeremy Chadwick <yoshi@parodius.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/34952: Mouse cursor invisible with USB mice and usbd Message-ID: <200202150840.g1F8e3I54388@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/34952; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jeremy Chadwick <yoshi@parodius.com>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/34952: Mouse cursor invisible with USB mice and usbd
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:33:41 -0800
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:49:00AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >
> > 2. Modify the rc files to support something like vidcontrol_init="yes" and vidcontrol_flags="-m on" in rc.conf.
> >
>
> Can't you just add the following to /etc/rc.conf?
>
> allscreens_flags="-m on"
>
> Joe
Fairly odd solution (I would call it more of a "hack"), for two
reasons:
1. usbd, since it relies upon spawning external applications to enable
features (i.e. moused), should also permit the user to run something
like "vidcontrol -m off" when detaching a device; presently, usbd already
calls moused on attach and "killall moused" on detach -- so why not also
do vidcontrol? Generally this is considered a "clean" way of doing things,
since usbd seems to already be doing this already... :-) Regardless, this
might cut down on some of the PRs, like "USB mouse doesn't work in STABLE!".
2. allscreens_flags is used in a very peculiar manner:
if [ -n "${allscreens_flags}" ]; then
echo -n ' allscreens'
for ttyv in /dev/ttyv*; do
vidcontrol ${allscreens_flags} < ${ttyv} > ${ttyv} 2>&1
done
fi
In reference to my bug report, I'm curious how redirecting
stdin and stdout to the actual console ttys would affect
vidcontrol when using "-m on". Would this have any consequences?
I'd rather put faith into Option #1. :-)
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