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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:56:48 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine), mark@grondar.za, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added... 
Message-ID:  <199606231956.VAA02659@grumble.grondar.za>

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Michael Smith wrote:
> Mark Valentine stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > > It does not work here. I have a vga (Et4000 with 1MB) and a genius
> > > mouse (works on X as MouseSystems on /dev/ttyd1)
> > 
> > I forgot to mention that bit in my other mail - I had to use the cuaa?
> > device (/dev/cuaa1 in your case) instead!  (The more I poke at serial
> > devices, the less I understand them...  My X server uses the ttyd? device
> > just fine.)
> 
> Operations on a ttyd? device will block until the port has DCD raised.
> If DCD drops again, the process on the port will get  HUP.

I tried the cuaa1 device and it worked, but now X is broken. :-(
If I Altfn to the X screen or launch xdm while moused is running,
the screen flicks between graphics and text about 4 times, then
returns to the text screen, leaving a dead xdm and no other
X processes. Killing moused before doing the Alt-Fn works OK.

> cua? devices are similar, but they pretend that they have DCD when you
> first open them.
> 
> The X server knows how to find the cuaa? device that corresponds
> to  a give ttyd? device.  Moused doesn't.

Worth "teaching" it?

M
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