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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:56:47 +1100
From:      David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: moused and X11R6
Message-ID:  <19970211125647.01074@usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <199702101852.UAA04203@grackle.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Feb 02, 1997 at 08:52:53PM
References:  <199702101852.UAA04203@grackle.grondar.za>

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On Feb 02, 1997 at 08:52:53PM, Mark Murray wrote:
> Zach Heilig wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure I tracked down my problem.  moused & X are working
> > together nicely again.  The problem seemed to be that I had typed:
> > 
> > vidcontrol -m on
> > 
> > in the virtual terminal that was later used to run X.

Ah, nice to know. The chances of this happening on most installations
would be small though, assuming that X is starting up on the first
inactive vt, no?


> >  Problems went away after I thought of that and turned it off...
> 
> That is a bug in itself; the fact that it messes up X. I would be a
> sod to fix, though.

Couldn't the X server simply force it off on its when it
starts up?

    #include <machine/console.h>
    .
    .
    {
	struct mouse_info mouse;

	mouse.operation = MOUSE_HIDE;
	ioctl(0, CONS_MOUSECTL, &mouse);
    }

Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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