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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: diskless X server using FreeBSD 2.0.5R 
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J Wunsch writes:
>As Eric L. Hernes wrote:
>
>Just a side-note:
>
>> 1) The num-lock thing stumped me for a day or so.
>>    I initially `solved' this by taking the mouse
>>    away, because our machine is only going to
>>    run one `kterm' and switching focus with the 
>>    mouse could be confusing to the users.  I just
>>    told the X-server to use an unused pty for the
>>    mouse device.  I later figured out that you
>>    simply need to turn off num-lock, but not
>>    having a mouse was a better solution for our
>>    situation.
>
>It's valid to use /dev/null as ``mouse device''. :-)

Yea, but I found that using /dev/null, the X-server
would always chew cpu time. I figured that it was
due to /dev/null always being ready to be read,
whereas an unused pty would block on read.

>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

eric.

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