From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 12:09:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02546 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:09:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02532; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA00361; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:36:29 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199606221836.TAA00361@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:36:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org's message of Jun 21, 12:54pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current) Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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