Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time Message-ID: <199903221640.IAA53147@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/10715; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/10715: Console font loading problem at boot time Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:34:28 +0900 "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > 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 Yeah, sure. But PC architecture only has extra scan lines for characters 208 through 211 (or similar range, I don't quite recall). Using any others for the mouse pointer results in an ugly mouse pointer. This is actually an available option, as Yokota-san has mentioned, and is probably mentioned in the LINT. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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