From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 5 02:35:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD11816A418 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:35:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reko.turja@liukuma.net) Received: from www.liukuma.net (www.liukuma.net [62.220.235.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7264E13C45D for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 02:35:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reko.turja@liukuma.net) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by www.liukuma.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE591CC66; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:35:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from www.liukuma.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.liukuma.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 8+e5lIW0esqv; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:35:08 +0200 (EET) Received: from rivendell (c-a70471d5.019-61-68617010.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [213.113.4.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ignatz@www.liukuma.net) by www.liukuma.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E671CC59; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:35:07 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <078401c836e7$939e4eb0$0a0aa8c0@endor.swagman.org> From: "Reko Turja" To: "Willem Hendriks" , References: <20071205031135.GA3501@platvis.lan> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:36:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Cc: Subject: Re: Character 208 acts strangs in console, when moving mouse X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:35:59 -0000 > When i display character 208 in my console and move my mouse, i see > the strangest things. > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8, with default screenmap and console settings. > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~whendrik/download/mouse > > wget and cat that file in a console to see the effect. > > I tried it on my laptop and desktop PC with same kernel. Anyone else > experience this > problem/effect? I think it should be a pi character upside down, > mostly used to draw > tables in combination with other characters... Mouse cursor mapping artifact. In text mode on PC hardware, the mouse pointer has to be mapped to a character in order to show "fancy" pointer. Nothing to worry about. -Reko