Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:00:01 -0800 (PST) From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time Message-ID: <199903221600.IAA49472@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/10715; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:57:24 -0600 At 13:39 22-03-1999 +0900, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: >You are using the mouse cursor in the text console, right? > >This is a known problem when you enable the mouse cursor. The console >driver uses font for the character codes 208 though 211 to display the >mouse cursor. Ouch! Those codes are used for real characters not only by ISO-8859-2, which is what I happen to require, but, as far as I know, by all varieties of the ISO-8859 group of standards. On the other hand (again AFAIK), the ISO 8859 standard group reserves character codes 128 - 159 for system use. I would strongly urge whomever is in charge of text console development to change the mouse cursor into character codes within that area. I mean by default, without the need to rebuild the kernel. After all, outside of the English and perhaps German speaking countries, most of the world needs either one of the ISO-8859 standards, or a similar standard not yet covered by ISO. I have now disabled the mouse (since I have not figured out how to take advantage of it anyway), and the problem has disappeared. But that is not an ideal solution. Thanks to everyone who replied, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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