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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2007 04:36:01 +0200
From:      "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
To:        "Willem Hendriks" <whendrik.freebsd@xs4all.nl>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Character 208 acts strangs in console, when moving mouse
Message-ID:  <078401c836e7$939e4eb0$0a0aa8c0@endor.swagman.org>
References:  <20071205031135.GA3501@platvis.lan>

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> 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 




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