Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:36:28 +0100 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current) Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... Message-ID: <199606221836.TAA00361@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org's message of Jun 21, 12:54pm
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> From: sos@freebsd.org > Date: Fri 21 Jun, 1996 > Subject: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... > I'd like to hear how this works out with different mousetypes and > especially with different display hardware. Please note this works > only on ega's and above, as the mousepointer is done by reprogramming > the charset, giving the illusion that a "real" graphic mousepointer > is used. Neat feature, though on my system (Logitech serial mouse, S3 801 video with 2MB DRAM, 486DX2/66 CPU), the charset reprogramming seems to make cursor motion cause noticeable jerking of the display (causing mild nausea...). :-( Would a plain block cursor (maybe a different colour) be likely to improve usability on my system? (I can't think of any DOS stuff I have lying around which uses this trick, and I don't remember seeing any of this jerkiness with normal block-cursor DOS stuff.) Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home <mailto:mv@pobox.com> <http://www.pobox.com/~mv/>;
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